Why the hell would you want to climb Everest? I think it's mental illness.
This is what it looked like over the weekend. 300 people attempted the summit. Staring at the ass of the guy in front of you for a day as you suck down the oxygen bottles and hope you don't die while your guide drags you up the final leg of the mountain doesn't sound like fun to me.
This article says that those doing it are so disoriented from the lack of oxygen, they don't even remember the experience.
People die in huge numbers, and the bodies are so difficult to recover, they just leave them there. So as you are climbing, you are passing all these corpses. Four died over the weekend, and they are having trouble identifying them and understanding what happened, because the fellow (300!) climbers were all so groggy from oxygen starvation. Crazy.