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Mt Everest (8848m) is second major summit from the left - it doesn't actually look the biggest, such is its height. Nor is it the prettiest. Over 2,500 people have now climbed the world's highest mountain, but some 200 have been killed in try do so. Today it seems anyone with enough money and without technical experience can pay to climb it - perhaps the most sickening aspect of increased numbers has been the decline in ethics with plenty of climbers, driven by selfishness and egotism, prepared to walk over and past others about to die on the mountain