This is How Mount Everest Got So Overcrowded

Spoiler: It’s because of money.

Before 1953, no one in recorded history had reached the summit of Mount Everest.

This wrinkle in the Earth’s crust is the farthest from sea level you can get and still have two feet planted on the Earth. This was first determined in 1852 by mathematician and surveyor, Radhanath Sikdar, after decades of…