The Everest figures confirmed our sad suspicion: that the unparalleled figure of 17 deaths was not the whole tally. The final figure, confirmed by Nepal authorities, adds up to 20. Not exactly ...

Over the past two decades, the average annual death rate of climbers on Mount Everest has remained at about six. But this spring, at least 10 people have already been reported dead or missing on ...

Robin Fisher was descending from the summit of Everest when he collapsed A British man died on Saturday minutes after summiting Mount Everest, bringing to 10 the total death toll this season on ...

On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain.

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 ...

Three more climbers have died on Everest, expedition organisers and officials said Friday, taking the toll from a deadly week on the overcrowded world's highest peak to seven. "Two more Indian ...

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.

A US climber has died after descending from Everest, officials said Tuesday, taking this season's toll to 11 including several deaths blamed on overcrowding on the world's highest mountain.