“And they would be dead within an hour because their body ... with levels dropping to less than 40% when they reach the Everest “death zone.” The first target for mountaineers is Everest ...

Climbers at high altitudes are at risk because of the low concentrations of oxygen. The oxygen concentration where you live is probably much higher. What is the concentration of oxygen in the air ...

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.

After nearly a year of putting together this project on Everest, the thought of sending our climbers off for the last time onto the mountain is at once frightening and overwhelming. David ...

“I myself have retrieved around 10 dead bodies in recent years from different locations on Everest and clearly more and more of them are emerging now,” a government officer told the BB ...

Dead bodies are a common sight on top of Mount Everest. "I cannot believe what I ... traffic jams in the mountain's so-called "death zone," the area of the hike that reaches above 8,000 meters ...

A helicopter crash near Mount Everest in Nepal claimed the lives of ... the crashed site reported all 6 persons including Pilot dead." LAKPA SHERPA/AFP via Getty Images Tiwari also named the ...

"I stopped dead in my tracks ... Read More: What happens to your body in Mount Everest's 'Death Zone,' where 11 people have died in the past week Burke said enduring through those conditions ...

Alexei Bolotov died during the ascent of the mount along a new route on Tuesday YEKATERINBURG, May 16 (Itar-Tass) - The body of a Russian mountain climber, who died while ascending Mount Everest ...

Everest, for Mingma ... More striking are the scenes that show snaking queues of climbers, trudging into the dead zone to take their turn at the summit; the necklaces of lights as chains of ...

Two-part special following an extraordinary team of climbing doctors on an expedition like no other to make scientific history and experience the ultimate in mountaineering.