Below are excerpts from radio transmissions and video recorded on the day in May 1999 when NOVA-sponsored climbers discovered the body of George Leigh Mallory high on Mt. Everest. Mallory ...

From discovering Mallory to losing his best friend in an avalanche on Shishapangma, Conrad Anker’s career in the mountains is ...

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 ...

Could this be the body of Irvine, who fell from the spot where his ice axe was found? Lying at 27,000 feet, this last piece of evidence has brought a team of mountaineers to Everest to climb to ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

Recent overcrowding on Everest has resulted in the deaths of at ... Over the course of weeks, the body starts to make more hemoglobin (the protein in red blood cells that helps carry oxygen ...

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 ...

Did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit of Everest in 1924? This question (and mystery ... In 1999 Conrad Anker discovered the body of George Leigh Mallory but even this discovery was not sufficient ...

Conquering Mount Everest is no easy feat for the body, mind — and bank account. Nepal plans to increase the price of Everest climbing permits by about 36%, the first rise in almost a decade.