Christ Church – Everest: From Experience to Commodity?

Ascending the world’s tallest mountain used to be a rarefied experience — a once-in-a-lifetime challenge taken on by only the well-trained. Today, climbing Mount Everest is a different story entirely — hundreds of people attempt to scale the peak each season, creating dangerous traffic jams, generating significant waste and posing huge impacts on the peak. A multigenerational panel of alpinists and Everest experts, including Adrian Ballinger, Adrian Burgess, Hilaree Nelson, Karsang Sherpa and David Breashears, will join guest moderator Conrad Anker to talk about the state of the peak and the promise of pristine adventure it once held.