I'm excited to read his book as well! It must be a neat experiance to have a friend being published.

I'm very much against making Everest easier to access. Each year more and more inexperienced climbers are making an attempt at the summit. With the help of Sherpa’s, guides, and equipment many of these climbers are making it way too far up the mountain for their own good. The amount of gear that is dumped on the mountain each year is disgusting; pictures of the empty O2 tanks make parts of this majestic mountain look like a recycling yard.

The biggest issue though is weather. It's only a matter of time before another major tragedy strikes because climbers with little experience at altitude are going to get trapped in a very bad situation.

There’s a documentary by one of the big channels, Discovery?, where it shows the climbers worried about running out of 02 because they’re waiting in line to reach the summit and very, very few non Tibetans can stay at altitude for long without supplemental oxygen.