In last 10 years the business have changed a lot. Nowadays even pop-starts were "carried to the top" by Sherpas, for whom it is just a job.
I meet one of such Sherpa guides, who already had 5 ascendings, in Periche village on 31 March. He told me that the number of tourists is increasing each year, that supply chain is robust enough so that tourists could have ordered a spaghetti or noodles or even pizza at the Camp2, etc. (30kg. gas cylinders and food supplies were carried to the Camp2 by Nepalese potters).
Actually it is ugly, greedy, very arrogant and selfish world of those rich "tourists" who brought their "safe" trip to the top. One just have see them for a few minutes or how potters are carrying innumerable boxes and bags with tourist's stuff. Just business.
I meet one of such Sherpa guides, who already had 5 ascendings, in Periche village on 31 March. He told me that the number of tourists is increasing each year, that supply chain is robust enough so that tourists could have ordered a spaghetti or noodles or even pizza at the Camp2, etc. (30kg. gas cylinders and food supplies were carried to the Camp2 by Nepalese potters).
Actually it is ugly, greedy, very arrogant and selfish world of those rich "tourists" who brought their "safe" trip to the top. One just have see them for a few minutes or how potters are carrying innumerable boxes and bags with tourist's stuff. Just business.