Mountain Clients

‘Trouble at the top,’ So wrote Stephen Venables in The Sunday Times, May 25, 2003: ‘Everest ‘altitude tourists’ have excelled themselves in crass behaviour on this great anniversary.’   50 years after the first ascent of Everest and this majestic mountain has been brought to its knees by trophy hunters attracted to the mountain by mountain guides greedy for money and dare I say, public recognision. Chomalungma has become the highest toilet in the world since the first ascent in 1953 along with frozen human remains for all to see and disacrded, yellow oxygen cylinders marking the way.