Editing Mount Everest (section)

===2018===
{{main|Mount Everest in 2018}}
[[File:Nepal 2018-03-27 (40012222680).jpg|thumb|Mount Everest in the upper left (March 2018)]]
807 climbers summited Mount Everest in 2018,<ref name=":4" /> including 563 on the Nepal side and 240 from the Chinese Tibet side.<ref name=":0x"/> This broke the previous record for total summits in year from which was 667 in 2013, and one factor that aided in this was an especially long and clear weather window of 11 days during the critical spring climbing season.<ref name=":0x"/><ref name="auto5">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2018/jun/04/peak-climbing-everest-awful-chris-bonington|title=Is climbing Everest today as 'awful' as Chris Bonington says?|last=Douglas|first=Ed|date=4 June 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=22 January 2019|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=14 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220514081833/https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2018/jun/04/peak-climbing-everest-awful-chris-bonington|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.outsideonline.com/2393183/mount-everest-2019-preview|title=What to Watch for on Everest This Year|last=Arnette|first=Alan|date=4 April 2019|website=Outside Online|access-date=10 April 2019|archive-date=10 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710045637/https://www.outsideonline.com/2393183/mount-everest-2019-preview|url-status=live}}</ref> Various records were broken, including a summit by double-amputee [[Xia Boyu]], who undertook his climb after winning a court case in the Nepali Supreme Court.<ref name=":0x"/> There were no major disasters, but seven climbers including sherpas as well as international climbers, died in various situations.<ref name=":0x"/> Although record numbers of climbers reached the summit, old-time summiters that made expeditions in the 1980s lamented the crowding, feces, and cost.<ref name="auto5"/>

Figures for the number of permits issued by Nepal range from 347<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/everest/reference/climbing-mount-everest/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205233431/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/everest/reference/climbing-mount-everest/|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 February 2019|title=Want to climb Mount Everest? Here's what you need to know|first=Freddie|last=Wilkinson|date=22 January 2019|publisher=National Geographic|access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref> to 375.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-04-11/2018-everest-season-starts-with-fresh-hopes-dreams.html|title=2018 Everest season starts with fresh hopes, dreams|newspaper=Kathmandu Post|first=Sangam|last=Prasain|date=11 April 2018|access-date=30 May 2019|archive-date=30 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530004455/https://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-04-11/2018-everest-season-starts-with-fresh-hopes-dreams.html|url-status=live}}</ref>