Given that the odds of dying on Everest are so high, a bit of ill-advised drug use seems like a minor concern.

Are they?

I thought nowadays the sherpas practically carry you up there so it's of low risk to you.

Both wikipedia [1] and an expedition company [2] seem to put the deaths per year as <10 with it being dominated by people from Nepal who are presumably the sherpas doing all the work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbi...

[2]: https://www.climbing-kilimanjaro.com/mount-everest-deaths/

"The percentage of deaths to successful attempts is around 4%."

4% chance of death sounds very high to me.

I mean, pick a dangerous surgery with a high death %. It's still safe to be the surgeon in that case.

The people dieing are by far the sherpas which you aren't one of.

>The people dieing are by far the sherpas

Not according to this graph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbi...