Sandra Leduc of Ottawa isn't quite sure if she wants to continue her journey up Mount Everest.
This comes after a Toronto woman died over the weekend descending the peak.
Shrya Shah, 33, died of exhaustion travelling down Mount Everest.
She was one of four people who died over the weekend. Eight people have died so far this year.
Leduc has been documenting her journey through social media.
"There's lots of dead or dying bodies. Thought I was in a morgue," she wrote on her Twitter account.
"Statistically more people die coming down Everest than going up," said Shawn Dawson, a veteran climber.
Dawson has climbed the world's seven highest peaks--including Mount Everest two years ago.
"There's only really one way up or one way down and you get caught behind each other. There's nothing you can do except go at a pace of the person in front of you," said Dawson.
He adds climbers who are forced to wait in these traffic jams end up using their critical oxygen supplies.
"Some people get the misconception that anybody can do it. And yeah you can. Anybody can do this but you've got to make commitment to it."
Dawson says wishes he would have seen Shrya Shah. He adds he would have talked to her about her training to make sure she was prepared.
"My training has always been that summit is only half way and you have to train to consider fact you still have to get back down and from especially from highest point on earth."
With a report from CTV's Joanne Schnurr.
