The bodies typically do not decompose on Mount Everest because of the cold temperature. They sometimes break down due to extreme weathering in the glaciers.

A lot of people are aware that Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth. Aside from this though, this mountain located in the Himalayas, has some other facts that are quite interesting. Here are ...

Since the first conquest of Mount Everest in 1953, the peak has been climbed thousands of times, though hundreds have lost their lives attempting the trek. The famous mountain sits on the border of ...

Mount Everest continues to move a few inches to the northeast and rise a fraction of an inch each year, according to GPS measurements taken since the late 1990s. 16 inches) in height each year due to ...

Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest. The remains of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were ...

Mt. Everest is the world's tallest peak. But some mountaineers, like Garrett Madison, say it isn't the hardest to climb. Hundreds of people summit Mt. Everest each year, and you don't need to be an ...

A new book details the elaborate industry that has developed around Mt. Everest and the hundreds of climbers who attempt to scale it each year. REUTERS In April, 2013, a group of Sherpas, the iconic ...