Distinguished mountaineer Gerard Hommel, a veteran of six Everest expeditions, died after falling off a ladder: he slipped ...

The pair disappeared during the expedition and were declared dead. Had they made ... reach the top of Mount Everest (29 years before the first recorded successful climb.) Because neither man ...

One of them was paralysed, the other was hallucinating and the third fell down a deep crevasse on some of the highest ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls ... which is responsible for climbing permits on Everest’s northern side. When the team made the find they began “running in ...

Nima Rinji Sherpa’s ears are still tinged black from wind chill, an occupational hazard of climbing to heights where humans ...

The world's highest mountain is buckling under the weight of its popularity. Thankfully, a few organizations have stepped in ...

A Chinese climber reported stumbling across "an English dead" at 26,570 feet (8,100 meters ... did locate the men's last camp. Noted Everest historian Tom Holzel—whose latest research features ...

You may already know everything there is to know about the tragedy on Everest in 1996. But this footage from shortly after is ...

The partial remains of tragic Mount Everest climber Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine are ... without pictures of his dead body sold to the highest bidder.' ...

Read the last letters of George Mallory, who died climbing Mount Everest ... to have reached the top of Everest. But the pair disappeared and were declared dead, and questions still remain as ...

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Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial remains believed to belong to the British explorer Sandy Irvine had been found on Mount Everest by a National Geographic documentary crew supercharged ...