The 1996 Mount Everest disaster is one of the deadliest and most infamous events in the history of mountaineering, bringing worldwide attention to the dangers of high-altitude climbs. Climbing ...

Baltasar Kormákur’s “Everest,” a $55 million disaster/adventure film, takes on a challenge as seemingly insurmountable as scaling the mountain itself. “Everest” depicts the ill-fated 1996 expedition ...

Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 disaster as it was about filmmaking. Many of the survivors had sworn they would never return to Everest.

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 ...

At Everest Base Camp, struck by avalanches that descended from Pumori, many international sources have cited at least 18 or 20 victims, with 61 injured and an unspecified number of people missing. The ...

tells the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster that claimed eight lives. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted to summit Everest. Things took a dark turn that day when an ...