Sherpa Lapka said his collague Pastenji was a 'dedicated climber from his youth, with impressive climbs under his belt including twice on Mt. Everest, K2, Amadablam, and several other 6,000m ...

Are queues on Mount Everest resulting in a rise of fatalities on the famous mountain? Tim Mosedale is one of the UK's most experienced Everest guides. Having summited 6 times he's seen the ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

An Indian mountaineer has become the eighth Mount Everest fatality so far this year as concern rises over overcrowding at the world’s highest peak. Banshi Lal, 46, who was rescued from the ...

More than 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest — the tallest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted ...

Put Mt. Everest (28 deg North) at the latitude of Mt. McKinley (63 deg North) in the United States and it is likely that no climber would ever have been able to reach the summit breathing the ...

If climbers want to summit Mount Everest, they have to brave its "death zone" - the part of the mountain above 8,000 meters. At that altitude, the air has so little oxygen that the body starts to ...