Due to the expense and difficulty of retrieving bodies from Everest, around 200 bodies still remain on its slopes, frozen in time. However, the many deaths that occur on Sagarmatha, as it's ...

Mt. Everest is not a joke and in fact, quite a serious climb,' Rajan Dwivedi wrote in his Instagram post. His video vividly captured the congestion on a single rope line, with climbers navigating ...

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 ...

A Mount Everest avalanche last week that killed 16 ... There is significant variation in the causes of deaths among Sherpas and the climbers who hire them, according to The Atlantic.

Professional guides reduced the ratio of deaths to summits, too. Not everyone loved the ease with which professional guides allowed amateurs to reach Everest’s peak. While once Everest’s base ...

It extends to the far reaches of Mount Everest where it’s fatal. The world’s highest peak is racking up casualties at a rate that people are now calling it a ‘death zone.’ The most recent ...