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What are the risks and cost of climbing Mount Everest?
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The teams set off early on May 10th. It was a beautiful day with perfect weather.
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Ed was at camp 2 monitoring the progress of the climbers with a telescope and a radio
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It is a rule on the Mount Everest that at 2:00 pm you are to turn around and return to camp 4 in order to make it back before dark and avoid weather near the summit.
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Suddenly, at 3:00 pm a massive snowstorm started.
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By 10:00 pm that night, people from both groups were trapped on the mountain in between the summit and camp 4 because of the storm.
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Some climbers managed to survive the freezing cold
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The next day some climbers were rescued.
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However, on May 11 a few others collapsed and died in snow.
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In total, eight people died on Mount Everest's deadliest day.
