This Everest season, Karl Egloff and Tyler Andrews will try speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa holds the record, set in 1998, but not ...

Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the 2015 movie is the mountain itself. Located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border, Mount Everest is ...

Universal Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Jason Clarke in 'Everest' Yes, Everest is based on the real-life Mount Everest tragedy of May 10, 1996. That day, four expedition groups attempted to ...

In addition to the blizzard, several other factors contributed to the tragedy on Mount Everest that day. Guides failed to set up fixed ropes, causing detrimental delays, and a lack of oxygen ...

In 2000, he wrote a memoir about the tragedy, Left For Dead: My Journey Home From Everest. Hawkes' Doug Hansen was a passionate climber from Washington who worked as a postal worker. Lou Kasischke ...

The 2015 movie Everest had several big-name actors added to its ensemble cast, all of them based on the real-life climbers of the 1996 Everest group.

Tragedy struck Annapurna yesterday when an avalanche stormed down its icy slopes between Camp 2 and Camp 3. Annapurna, the 10th highest mountain in the world at ...

Surviving the tragedy after a hypothermic coma has inspired him to become a motivational speaker. How Many People Died on Everest in 1996? In the 1996 disaster, eight climbers lost their lives.