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This is why Everest climbers typically make several trips up and down the mountain to increasingly high elevation camps to acclimate their bodies to high altitude conditions. Other risks to Everest climbers include frostbite and hypothermia from the extreme temperatures, thrombosis or embolisms caused by thickening of blood in response to high altitude, extreme sunburn, and broken bones from falls.
Most climber of Mount Everest will see temperature on the order of -40Â°C = -40Â°F at several points on their month long trip to the summit. On the summit day it is standard to start climbing at midnight and attempt to summit early in the morning.