tom...if you can, would you please post more of the story in the OP so i don't have to click a link every time? some of your links pop up weird stuff, like the annoying video about some hollywood gossip in yours.
what do you mean about traffic lights?
It's a very long article and the traffic lights is about the fact that it is getting very crowded up on Everest these days.
Youngest British woman to scale Mount Everest reveals how she had to clamber past dead mountaineers at the summit
- Leanne Shuttleworth said passing the casualties was 'the most horrendous' part of the ascent
- She said the frozen bodies of climbers who died last weekend were still attached to fixed mountaineering lines
- Teenager said one teammate was forced to turn back after his corneas froze in the terrible weather conditions
- Four people have now been confirmed as dead last week in storm that prompted a dangerous 'traffic jam' as climbers rushed to the summit
- Many started final ascent hours after it is safe due to storm and high number of climbers on first weekend the mountain was open
By
Kerry Mcqueeney
PUBLISHED: 12:45, 25 May 2012 |
UPDATED: 15:03, 25 May 2012
A teenager who became the youngest British woman to scale Mount Everest at the weekend has described the harrowing moment she walked around mountaineers killed in last weekend's deadly storm.
As Leanna Shuttleworth ascended the top of the world's highest summit, she had to walk around dead and dying climbers - some of whom were still attached to the fixed mountaineering lines.
Miss Shuttleworth echoed reports of the dangerous 'traffic jam' at Everest's summit.
The 19-year-old said about 150 climbers all rushed to summit the mountain during a small window of good weather and the queues to ascend to the peak caused dangerous delays.
Ultimate challenge: Leanna Shuttleworth became the youngest British woman to scale Everest... but she has described harrowing scenes as she reached the summit of the world's highest mountain
'The most horrendous thing to see': The 19-year-old described having to walk around bodies attached to the fixed lines
Describing the deadly conditions, she said: 'The summit was really quite terrible as far as summit days go. We had awful weather.
'We started out at 9pm and the wind was meant to start dropping but it never did. We passed quite a few other teams but they turned back.
'Our oxygen regulators kept freezing up, we could not get into our water as the lids had frozen on and we did not want to stop because it was so cold.
