The Hornbein Couloir poses a fantasy ski descent that only two parties have ever attempted. Neither was successful.

While 'Rainbow Valley' sounds like a nice place to be, the reasoning behind the name is much more sinister and refers to the ...

Babu Ram Maharjan is known for Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest (2018) and Moving Mountains (2015).

What happens to the human body at the top of the world? Explore the extreme conditions on Mount Everest, from low oxygen ...

On Shishapagma or Gasherbrum II, your acquaintance with the death zone would be relatively brief, with “only” 27 and 35 ...

The death zone is generally agreed to be at altitudes above around 8,000 meters. The term was first coined by Edouard Wyss-Dunant, the doctor who led the 1952 Swiss Everest Expedition. This ...

The average Canadian can expect to live 81.7 years, according to new death data from Statistics Canada. The latest data analyzes deaths from 2023. Life expectancy is up from 81.3 years in 2022 but ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIF. -- Content warning: This story includes of the death of a child. Reader discretion is advised. A two-year-old boy was fatally shot when his seven-year-old brother found a ...

In 1953, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary became the first two people confirmed to have summitted the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest. Just under 10 years later, young ...

Swiss mountaineers Ernst Schmied and Jurg Marmet were the third and fourth individuals to ascend Mount Everest successfully. They were members of Albert Eggler’s 1956 Swiss expedition.