Dadar Everest: Users Compare Traffic Jam On Mount Everest To India's Busiest Railway Station (Photo Screengrab on X Godman Chikna @Madan_Chikna)
Sharing the video of the Everest mountain getting overcrowded with climbers, an Indian X user, Godman Chikna, sarcastically wrote, ” Now, Mount Everest has turned into Dadar railway stations.” Dadar is the most crowded and busiest railway station in Mumbai with an average of 211,888 passengers commute from this station each day.
Though thousands of tourists climb Mount Everest every year, the situation this time has changed completely, with people standing in long queues and thus turning the earth”s highest mountain into a traffic jam-like scenario.
Abey Mount Everest ko Dadar station bana rakha hai 😭 pic.twitter.com/okY7e9HENI
— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) May 26, 2024
The video of the congested mountain path has been going viral on social media with the creative captions of the sarcastic meme makers. Many users had dubbed the situation as “Traffic jam in the Mount Everest.”
It is reported that the climbers are using the favorable pleasant weather and the number of people reaching the spot has boomed over the past couple of weeks. The peak season has turned the place into a popular tourist destination as thousands are rushing to make use of the brief period.
The season”s rush came to the attention when a May 20 Instagram post on by Rajan Dwivedi merged online, with several other photos of the contested Everest. The video had showed Dwivedi waiting in a single line with many other climbers behind him trying to reach the top.
Sharing the video, Dwivedi wrote that it was like a nightmare and exhausting to come down when a huge line of climbers were trying to make it to the top.
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Despite the dangers of the rush, climbers are braving the challenges to make use of the short season. Given the potential risk, many including environmentalists have expressed their concerns.
Notably, last week, two climbers, 39-year-old Mar Paterson, and his 23-year-old guide Pastenji Sherpa have been missing and are feared dead after reaching the peak. According to the expedition company that they carried to, the due fell towards the Tibet side through a very vertical steep.
