Mount Everest is the highest peak on Earth at 8849m. It's beautiful, magical, and also one of the most hostile environments a human being can enter. Above 8000 metres lies the notorious death zone ...

Five bodies, including one skeleton, have finally been recovered from Mount Everest’s so-called ‘death zone’ after the Nepali army deployed a dozen military personnel and 18 sherpas to clean ...

KOSHI PROVINCE, Nepal — A Nepalese Sherpa made a rare rescue from Mt. Everest’s notorious “death zone,” carrying a struggling climber on his back until they reached safety. Reuters reports ...

Unidentified mountaineers descend from the summit of Mount Everest in a May 19, 2009 file photo. AFP/COURTESY OF PEMBA DORJE SHERPA "The body was frozen with hands and legs spread," he said.

Two missing climbers are believed to be dead after part of an icy ridge collapsed on Mount Everest during a lethal week on the world’s tallest peak. British climber Daniel Paterson, 39, and his ...

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." ...

A Malaysian climber was saved from the "death zone" of Mount Everest by the bravery of a sherpa. Gelje Sherpa was near the top of Everest when he spotted the climber clinging to a rope. 12 ...

A Nepali sherpa who was helping a client conquer Mount Everest stopped the trip to save a distressed climber in an area known as the mountain’s “death zone.” The sherpa, named Gelje, is an ...

Gelje Sherpa, the guide, found the climber on the brink of death, hanging from a rope in the mountain’s infamous death zone—an area approaching the summit made especially lethal by low oxygen ...

Mount Everest Claims Another Life as Search ... His death and Nawang’s disappearance in the mountain’s so-called “death zone”—the region with an altitude over about 26,000 feet where ...

Five bodies, including one skeleton, have finally been recovered from Mount Everest’s so-called ‘death zone’ after the Nepali army deployed a dozen military personnel and 18 sherpas to clean ...