Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

But this year was the first time that authorities set a goal to retrieve five bodies from the so-called “death zone ... after ...

Regardless of whether the dead belong to a foreigner ... reaches 100 km/h in the death zone. About 21 hours without oxygen (by Babu Chiri Sherpa on Everest) and 90 hours with oxygen (by Pemba ...

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.

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

Dead bodies are a common sight on top of Mount Everest. "I cannot believe what I ... traffic jams in the mountain's so-called "death zone," the area of the hike that reaches above 8,000 meters ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A Nepali sherpa made a nearly impossible rescue after finding a climber clinging in Mount Everest's 'death zone'. More from News A Nepali sherpa made a nearly ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers will still flock to the mountain.

The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year's climbing season. Ang Babu Sherpa, who led the ...

Two-part special following an extraordinary team of climbing doctors on an expedition like no other to make scientific history and experience the ultimate in mountaineering.