All About Mount Everest's "Death Zone" ...

It's called an icefall because it looks like a frozen waterfall, but here on Everest, the term "fall" might as well be a dire warning to all. As of 2016, six people had fallen to their deaths ...

Recent overcrowding on Everest has resulted in the deaths of at least 11 people this ... When the amount of oxygen in your blood falls below a certain level, your heart rate soars to up to 140 ...

Climbers at high altitudes are at risk because of the low concentrations of oxygen. The oxygen concentration where you live is probably much higher. What is the concentration of oxygen in the air ...

Another interesting question is whether Sherpa support results in lower death rates ... even less than fall permits but are ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Vanessa O'Brien: 26,000 feet or 8,000 meters, they do call the "death zone." The death zone is, you know, a part of what happens at height in the mountain.

A Mount Everest avalanche last week ... For those climbers, falls are the leading danger, accounting for 39% of their deaths, compared with just 13.8% in the case of Sherpas.

Of all deaths from 1950 to 2019 in non-Sherpa climbers during a summit bid on Mount Everest, about 35 per cent were caused by falls, with other leading causes being exhaustion (22 per cent ...

Everest Disaster". It attempts to recreate the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Krakauer and portrays what he was going through ...