Everest Ascents Exploded After Commercialization

By 1987, only about 200 people had summited Mount Everest in the Himalayas despite decades of professional climbers and large national expeditions. Commercial climbing began transforming Everest expeditions during the 1990s, bringing far more people to the mountain. In 2013 alone, the Himalayan Database recorded 658 summits, raising the cumulative total to 6,871 ascents by 4,042 different people.

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