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Over 300 people are said to have died while hiking Mount Everest, many of whom remain on the mountain<\/h2>\n

As the ice on Mount Everest melts at an alarming rate, hundreds of bodies of climbers who died attempting to climb the summit are being revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s believed\u00a0Mount Everest<\/a>\u00a0has lost 180ft of ice in recent years.<\/p>\n

While the ice on Mount Everest’s highest glacier took 2,000 years to form, experts have issued a stark warning that it could completely disappear in just 25 years.<\/p>\n

Discussing Everest’s South Col Glacier (SCG), a 2022 report said: “Thinning could occur in 25 years, over 80 times faster than it took to form the ice now exposed at the surface of SCG.<\/p>\n

“Estimated contemporary thinning rates\u2026 indicate several decades of accumulation may be lost on an annual basis now that glacier ice has been exposed.”<\/p>\n

Now, as Mount Everest continues to thaw, search teams have used this as an opportunity to scale the 29,032-foot Himalayan peak to a bid to search for lost hikers who have died on the mountain.<\/p>\n

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Over 300 people are thought to have died on Mount Everest. (CFOTO\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Since the search began earlier this year five bodies have so far been discovered, CBS\u00a0reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

Two bodies had been preliminarily identified, pending ‘detailed checks’ for confirmation, but all five currently remain unnamed.<\/p>\n

The search team is made up of 12 military personnel and 18 climbers who are working as part of Nepal’s mountain clean-up campaign on Everest.<\/p>\n

The team are working on adjoining peaks Lhotse and Nuptse in the hopes of locating more fallen hikers.<\/p>\n

The clean-up campaign has been running since 2019, with this year’s expedition having started in April.<\/p>\n

As well as collecting the deceased, trash is also an ongoing issue on Mount Everest.<\/p>\n

Between 2019 and 2023, 110 tons of waste were collected as part of the annual clean-up efforts, CNN\u00a0reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aditya Karki, an officer in Nepal’s army who led the search, told the AFP news agency: “Because of the effects of global warming, (the bodies and trash) are becoming more visible as the snow cover thins.”<\/p>\n

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The mountain clean-up takes place annually. (PURNIMA SHRESTHA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

There’s a part of Mount Everest that’s often referred to as\u00a0the ‘death zone’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Experiencing such high levels of altitude can cause havoc on our bodies, in some cases proving fatal.<\/p>\n

When climbers reach ‘the death zone’, it’s said that they’ll be surviving on just one-quarter of the oxygen one would need at sea level. To compensate for this, the body will start producing more hemoglobin than usual.<\/p>\n

Too much hemoglobin can cause a person’s blood to thicken however, which can put them at higher risk of a stroke.<\/p>\n

There’s also risk of experiencing hypoxia. This happens when your brain doesn’t receive enough oxygen.<\/p>\n

Hypoxia causes brain swelling and makes it difficult to concentrate and is likely to trigger vomiting and sickness.<\/p>\n

However, the BBC\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that below one percent of people who climb beyond Everest’s base camp lose their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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