Mount Everest: How Many People Die On A Mountain?

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The topic I chose was death on the mountain to see about how many people died on the mountain and to see how they most likely died. And to learn what are main cause’s people die on the mountain. Main reasons people die on Mount Everest are avalanches, injury’s because of falling or ice collapsing. Other reasons are exposure, disappeared, altitude sickness, heart attack, exhaustion, and cerebral oedema. The place where most people die on the mountain is at the Death Zone. The Death Zone is 8,000 meters up ( 26,000 feet) and the mountain is only 8,500 meters tall ( 27,000).
The number of people that have climbed Mount Everest is 6,958 as of 2015 and at least 275 people out of that have died trying to reach the summit. When climbing the mountain

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