The camp is located just below the Yellow Band. From here ... the summit ridge leads up to the highest point of Everest. The ridge is not steep, but is exposed, with a 10,000-foot-drop on either ...

Yellow Band, 25,000 feet The five of us got out of ... down from the South Col (the day before had been a big one for Everest summiting and this same day, the 20th of May, was going to be even ...

Everest was first summited by Sherpa Tenzing ... The route to the South Col begins at C3 and across the Yellow Band. It starts steep but settles into a sustained grade as the altitude increases.

Last week, Mongolian climbers Usukhjargal Tsedendamba, 53, and Purevsuren Lkhagvajav, 31, were found dead near Everest's summit, days after going missing. Yellow band on Mt Everest (8848.86 m), 20 ...

Everest's North Face on October 20, 1984. On that day, Phil and John Roskelley left high camp very late in the season and climbed through the Yellow Band where Roskelley turned back. Phil ...

(Explore Mount Everest and its surrounding area with these ... he was taking a shortcut down through the Yellow Band when he spotted an old dead body inside a crevice at approximately 27,200 ...

This is the first rock a climber touches on the route up Everest. It becomes very obvious when one has reached this point in the climb—one's crampons hit hard rock. The top of the yellow band is ...