a body located 1,150 feet below the summit on the north face, serving as a grim waypoint for climbers A map detailing the precise locations where hundreds of climbers have died on Mount Everest ...

A century ago, a British expedition set out to find a route to the world’s highest mountain — Everest ... Wheeler was able to create the first map of Everest and one that is still in use ...

Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

Put Mt. Everest (28 deg North) at the latitude of Mt. McKinley (63 deg North) in the United States and it is likely that no climber would ever have been able to reach the summit breathing the ...

The Sherpas are Tibetan Buddhists of the Nyingmapa sect, and have drawn much of their religious tradition from the Rongphu monastery, located at 16,000 feet on the north side of Mount Everest.