Some Sherpas are considering a strike after Friday’s brutal avalanche, the deadliest in Everest history.

+ “If, say, 1 percent of American college-aged raft guides or ski instructors were dying on the job — the mortality rate of Everest Sherpas — the guiding industry would vanish.” Outside’s Grayson Shaffer on the value of a Sherpa life. And here’s Shaffer’s 2013 piece: The Disposable Man: A Western History of Sherpas on Everest.

+ Who dies (and where) on Earth’s highest mountain?