00:01A record 274 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday,
00:06marking the highest number to scale the world's tallest mountain in a single day from the Nepal side.
00:14Video footage showed a long line of climbers making their way to the 8,849-meter peak a day earlier.
00:22Mount Everest sits on the border between Nepal and the Tibet region of China and can be climbed from both
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00:29Expedition operators said there were no climbers on the Tibetan side this year as Chinese authorities did not issue permits.
00:36Mountaineering experts have criticized Nepal for allowing large numbers of climbers,
00:41warning it can lead to dangerous traffic jams in the mountain's death zone, where oxygen levels are critically low.
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