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I dont think so. Expedition companys pay Guides and Sherpa's to take climbers to the summit.
Climbing guides can earn their living on Mount Everest by guiding other climbers to the summit.
There are yakherders, curio shops and Sherpa mountain guides galore near Everst.
People who take climbers up Mount Everest are known as guides. These can be climbers with years of mountaineering experience who for a fee guide others to the summit and back. Sherpas can also guide you up the mountain too.
People who help climbers reach the summit of Mount Everest are called 'guides'.
The first person to die on Mount Everest was 'Dorje' on the 7th June 1922. He died in an avalanche that also killed six others. He was employed with the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition.
The first five people to reach the summit of Mount Everest are: 1: Edmund Hillary 2: Tenzing Norgay 3: Jurg Marmet 4: Ernst Schmied 5: Adolf Reist I do not know who were their guides.
The first person to die on Mount Everest was 'Dorje' on the 7th June 1922. He died in an avalanche that also killed six others. He was employed with the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition.
Some expeditions on Mount Everest have just 2 or 3 climbers, others can have around 20 - 40 or even more.
They are called 'Sherpas'. They can guide climbers up the mountain and keep the route safe and open.
The only people Mallory and Irvine saw while climbing on Mount Everest were there team mates, there was no one else on the mountain
Around 7,000 people from all over the world have reached the summit of Mount Everest to date. Nearly all of them survived their expedition and returned home safe and well.