Instead, bodies are often left lying on the mountain. Lhakpa Sherpa, who is the women's record-holder for most Everest summits, said she saw seven dead bodies on her way to the top of the mountain ...

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

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 ...

Among the frozen bodies are many ethnic ... a 48-year-old guide who has summited Everest more than a dozen times, said: "There will not be any Sherpas left in the mountain in 10 years." ...

Davo Karnicar's Sherpas assert that the body he discovered when skiing down Everest was of Scott Fisher, the Mountain Guide who died on Everest in 1996 PlanetMountain.com was sent the following news ...

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt. Everest's slopes in the decades since ...

"The question remains, 'Has Mount Everest been climbed?' It must be left unanswered ... Finally, in 1975 a body was found 750 feet directly below the ice axe by a Chinese climber who reported ...

Human bodies cannot function properly above a certain altitude. We work best at sea level, where oxygen levels are adequate for our brains and lungs. But if climbers want to summit Mount Everest ...

But our bodies can adjust. The process of acclimatization ... Ultimately, climbers can survive on the highest reaches of mountains including Mt. Everest. On Mt. Everest, conventional acclimatizing ...

[BBC] The family of the climber Joshua Cheruiyot who lost his life scaling Mt Everest has decided to let his body remain at the world’s highest point. The family said they would only organise a ...