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 ...

But if climbers want to summit Mount Everest ... brave what's known as "The Death Zone" - the altitude above 8,000 meters where there is so little oxygen that the body starts to die, minute ...

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.

according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest ... of Mallory's body in 1999 did not provide conclusive evidence that the pair reached the top of Everest, but "historians suspect ...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 126 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say. Another 188 people have been injured on the Chinese side of the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A Nepali sherpa made a nearly impossible rescue after finding a climber clinging in Mount Everest's 'death zone'. More from News A Nepali sherpa made a nearly ...

If climbers want to summit Mount Everest, they have to brave its "death zone" - the part of the mountain above 8,000 meters. At that altitude, the air has so little oxygen that the body starts to ...

Mountaineers during their ascend to Mount ... All the Everest deaths occurred in areas above 8,000 metres (26,200 feet), known as the "death zone", where thin air and low oxygen levels heighten ...