The scene at the summit of Mount Everest on Tuesday. Photograph: Nirmal Purja/AFP/Getty Images

Overcrowding on Everest killed at least four more people

Severe overcrowding on the world’s highest mountain, Everest, this year has brought concerns about the risks as four more deaths have been reported.
An Ireland climber, Kevin Hynes, 56, died in his tent at 7,000 meters on Friday, leaving his wife and two children. Hynes was part of a group from UK-based 360

Expeditions. He is known as one of the strongest and most experienced climbers and had previously summited Lhotse and Everest South.
Hynes death came a week after a professor from Trinity College, County Wicklow, named Seamus Lawless fell after reaching the summit. Furthermore, there are three other victims who were in a different expedition to Hynes, Kalpana Das and Nihal Ashpak Bagwan from India and an Austrian, Ernst Landgraf.

On Wednesday, another climber has died after being delayed in a bottleneck of climbers. Don Cash, 55, fell ill near the summit and collapsed as he was waiting for two hours to a well-known chokepoint, Hillary step.

Overcrowding and safety have become concerns in recent years since a Nepali trekking companies offer Everest package for half price organized by foreign companies.