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How Mount Everest's popularity turned fatal

Kathmandu | Chatur Tamang was on his way to the roof of the world when he hit a traffic jam.

Ahead of him, on the final ascent to Mount Everest, he saw more than 100 people bunched together on the narrow ridge that leads to the summit - a place so high that it is known as the "death zone", where the human body has trouble functioning.

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