Ameesha Chauhan, a survivor of the Everest "traffic jam," said that climbers without "basic skills" should be barred from scaling the mountain. This should be done in order to prevent the deathly 'traffic jam' from recurring at the Everest, she explained. At the moment, Ameesha is in Kathmandu's general hospital, recovering from frostbite.

The Everest was overcrowded this season after Nepal authorities issued 381 permits while several untrained climbers were also at the spot. This led to a "traffic jam," on Earth's highest point while mountaineers, exhausted and running out of oxygen, waited in long queues. They "put their own life in risk and also the Sherpa guides," Ameesha, 29, told AFP.

"I saw some climbers without basic skills fully relying on their Sherpa guides. The government should fix the qualification criteria. Only trained climbers should be granted the permit to climb Everest," Ameesha said, adding that she had to wait 20 minutes to climb down from the 8,848-metre peak.

Often mountaineers had to wait for hours in what has been described as the "death zone" by AFP, "where the cold is bitter, the air dangerously thin and the terrain treacherous." Moreover, Ameesha also said that some climbers were negligent of their own lives and insisted upon scaling higher even after their oxygen was running out.

"Many climbers' oxygen was running out. Some climbers died due to their own negligence. They insisted on reaching the top even if their oxygen is running out, which risks their life," Ameesha added. The death toll at the Everest this year, 11 so far, has been reported to be the highest since 2014-15.