It's a bit misleading to compare total numbers instead of percentages. The most people to ever summit Everest in one year was 800 in 2018, and an average of 4.4 deaths occur per year to do it.

That's 0.55% mortality for this one mountain.

If you apply the same odds to any other sport they would probably be banned. Could you imagine if 9 NFL players died every year? It's roughly less than 1 per year at the moment I believe and that's still pretty bad.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

It’s a bit misleading to compare total numbers instead of percentages. The most people to ever summit Everest in one year was 800 in 2018, and an average of 4.4 deaths occur per year to do it.

That’s 0.55% mortality for this one mountain.

Of course, the more participants, the lower the percentage goes down. But we are still only talking about a handful of deaths vs hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of deaths from other ordinary activities.

If you apply the same odds to any other sport they would probably be banned. Could you imagine if 9 NFL players died every year? It’s roughly less than 1 per year at the moment I believe and that’s still pretty bad.

I'm sure it would, especially if the sport was accessible to everyone (which mountain climbing is not).

For us regular folks, I'm more concerned with how many people drown doing recreational activities, or die in car accidents doing non-important travelling, or die from legally accessible drugs and alcohol.

I think the outrage over “allowing” mountain climbing is misplaced. That's my opinion.