Lord Clydesdale, as he was known, flew higher than anyone before him to complete the first flight over Mount Everest, using a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack. New Zealander Hillary ...

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 ...

Of all deaths from 1950 to 2019 in non-Sherpa climbers during a summit bid on Mount Everest, about 35 per cent were caused by falls, with other leading causes being exhaustion (22 per cent ...

Kathmandu: A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a ... the area called the “death zone”, where ...

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 ...

A sherpa guide saved the life of a climber struggling on Mount Everest's "death zone" in a rare high altitude rescue. The first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest talks about her achievement ...