[vrtnis]

NASA has a good approx of the route taken that day, the final push to the summit took 5hrs. Wonder with the lines up there today if it might take much longer. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/8396/edmund-hillary...

[shortcake27]

I’m a pretty serious hiker. A few days ago I got an ad from an Everest tour guide. In the photo was a queue of 350 people within arms length of each other. The idea of doing Everest is awesome, but it’s so heavily commoditised that I feel it would suck all the joy out of it for me personally. Good on the people who can look past that though.