The Everest figures confirmed our sad suspicion: that the unparalleled figure of 17 deaths was not the whole tally. The final figure, confirmed by Nepal authorities, adds up to 20. Not exactly ...

While 'Rainbow Valley' sounds like a nice place to be, the reasoning behind the name is much more sinister and refers to the ...

What happens to the human body at the top of the world? Explore the extreme conditions on Mount Everest, from low oxygen ...

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.

An American doctor has died during an attempt to scale Mount Everest, according to the US embassy in Nepal. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, of Seattle, was climbing with a Washington-state guiding service ...

But if climbers want to summit Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world at 29,029 feet (8,848 meters or 5.5 miles) above sea level, they have to brave what's known as "The Death Zone" - the ...

Robin Fisher was descending from the summit of Everest when he collapsed A British man died on Saturday minutes after summiting Mount Everest, bringing to 10 the total death toll this season on ...

At least 12 climbers died and five are missing and feared dead on the 8,849 metre (29,032 foot) Mount Everest during this year's main climbing season that has just ended, the deadliest since an ...

On Shishapagma or Gasherbrum II, your acquaintance with the death zone would be relatively brief, with “only” 27 and 35 ...

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 ...

That's in addition to another Sherpa who died earlier this year before last week's avalanche, making the total loss far higher than any other 3-year period. A Sherpa's job on Mount Everest is ...