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 ...

So how deadly is Everest and how does it compare with others in the region? Records suggest there have been just over 280 deaths on the mountain. While the number of deaths has been increasing ...

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

Over the past two decades, the average annual death rate of climbers on Mount Everest has remained at about six. But this spring, at least 10 people have already been reported dead or missing on ...

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

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.

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 ...

[AFP] An Indian climber rescued from Everest has died in hospital, a Nepali tourism official said Tuesday, taking the number of fatalities this season on the world's highest mountain to eight.

Mallory, who died while scaling Mount Everest in 1924 , on the Moine ridge of the Aiguille Verte mountain in France. It was reported 25 April, 2004 that some eighty years after British climbers ...

Shortly after abandoning Everest, Wells summited another type of mountain: he was appointed president of The Walt Disney Company (DIS), a role he served for a decade before his death in a ...