In my opinion I think that we should keep everest open for the following reason. My first reason is that if you were to ask anyone who has done any accomplishment in his/her life you will hear them say that they have a sense of achievement that they felt like they could almost do anything and that when you climb that mountain even if you just go up a few hundred feet you feel like you just beat the odds that you had against yourself and that you rose from your personal “jail” that keeps you from going to a higher limit.
Once you start going up Everest that is what you decided. Sure some friends were accepting of this, but you still decided to even think of climbing Everest in the first place you knew that once you went up