'INEXPERIENCED' climbers have been putting their lives on the line in order to get the best selfie on Mount Everest. Adventurers are patiently waiting for hours in the queue to reach the flat part of the summit, only for careless people to be balancing dangerously close to the edge to snap a selfie.
The flat part of the summit is around the size of two ping-pong tables but now the season has begun it can become packed with 20 climbers taking pictures just inches from a several-thousand foot drop...
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