Five years after the Everest tragedies chronicled in Jon Krakauer's best-seller Into Thin Air, the world's highest peak has become even more of a circus. As veteran climber and author David Roberts reports in the September/October 2001 issue's "Losing It on Everest" (read excerpt), paragliders launch from its summit, climbers steal from one another, and hypoxic veterans push on to their deaths.
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