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This is why Everest climbers typically make several trips up and down the mountain to increasingly high elevation camps to acclimate their bodies to high altitude conditions. Other risks to Everest climbers include frostbite and hypothermia from the extreme temperatures, thrombosis or embolisms caused by thickening of blood in response to high altitude, extreme sunburn, and broken bones from falls.
Associated Press. Tuesday 3 March 2015 01.29 EST Last modified on Wednesday 4 March 2015 02.13 EST. Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the worldâs highest peak, the chief of Nepalâs mountaineering association said Tuesday.