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"I'm not doing too good at Everest Base Camp, " says a reclining Ryan Mitchell behind an oxygen mask covering his face. Ryan Mitchell is on oxygen at Base Camp with an SPO2 of 35. And the Icefall Doctors have stopped cold in their tracks. A serac the size of a building is blocking the only route up the mountain. And 3,500 people are waiting at the foot of Everest with nowhere to go.The 2026 Everest season hasn't really started yet — but Tyler Andrews and Karl Egloff — gunning for the fastest no-oxygen ascent in history, the growing army of no-O2 no-Sherpa alpinists, and the looming regulatory changes that could make this one of the last seasons this style of climbing is even legal.**THANK YOU TO OUR CAMP FOUR SPONSORS HERE AND ON PATREON**:Barbedwire Henriette PiMike NicholsonTom McLeodGeoff (mountain climber)Ursula DimbergerNoelle Dud13yRESOURCES FOR MORE RESEARCHEverest at 19! YouTube Influencer Ryan Mitchell's Path to the Tophttps://youtu.be/w1mJsdeE81QEverest 2026 - Without These