At least 11 people have died climbing Mount Everest in the past week, drawing attention to how severely overcrowded the mountain has become. Upwards of 700 people climb the mountain each year, most within a narrow time frame of decent weather. Most people hire commercial expedition operators, which usually charge […]

A total of 11 people have died, and one is presumed dead from scaling Mount Everest this week. The total death toll from the past week alone is higher than that for all of 2018. The victims were from India, Ireland, Austria, and the US. The deaths come amid reports […]

One photo illustrates the huge problems on Mount Everest right now. So many people are climbing Everest that climbers are being forced to line up to reach the summit, as a result spending a dangerous, and sometimes deadly, amount of time in the “death zone.” The death zone is an […]

Before he died, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen worked on a simulation machine called the Holodome, which turned his passions into virtual experiences. The commercial version of that machine debuted this week at TED 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. The Holodome features three mind-bending simulations: a climb atop Mount Everest, a peek […]

Scott Parazysnki is the only NASA astronaut who has both flown in space and successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Everest. Parazynski, 57, joined NASA as an astronaut in 1992. He flew on five Space Shuttle missions, and participated in seven spacewalks. After his first attempt to reach the […]

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, recently gave a private talk about his aerospace company, Blue Origin. Bezos said he wanted to use Blue Origin to help move heavy industry into space, “protect this planet,” and prevent a resource-limited “civilisation of stasis.” However, he also challenged the idea of settling […]

After surviving a brain tumour in college, Alexander Pancoe plans to climb Mount Everest – his sixth summit. He went outside in Chicago during the polar vortex when the temperature was minus 50 degrees to help him prepare. Pancoe is dedicating his climb to the cancer patients at Lurie Children’s […]

Climbing Mount Everest is extremely dangerous: Many hikers contract a lung condition called high-altitude pulmonary edema that can be deadly. The best way to fight the condition is to get to a lower altitude. Lung doctor Ronald Crystal attempted to climb the mountain in April 2018, when he was 77 […]

More than 300 people are known to have died trying to reach the top of Mount Everest. Lhakpa Sherpa, who’s reached the summit a record-breaking nine times, described her latest climb to Business Insider. She said Everest climbers pass frozen bodies as they near the top of the mountain. Warning: […]

In May, social network ASKfm sponsored a group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts to climb Mount Everest as a part of a marketing stunt for their forthcoming ICO. ASKfm buried hardware wallets containing $US50,000 worth of the company’s token at the top of the mountain and encouraged people to retrieve them. On […]

Many climbers who reach high altitudes, especially higher than 7,000-8,000 meters, report hallucinations. Since not all of these visions occur in combination with altitude sickness, the authors of a recent study say episodes of high-altitude psychosis should be considered a new sort of condition. Many climbers report that their hallucinations […]

The “Death Zone” is a region near the top of world’s tallest mountains that earns the name because humans aren’t meant to survive there. Vanessa O’Brien is an expert mountaineer and the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent. She’s also the first American and British woman […]

At least 11 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest this year. The second-highest mountain in the world, K2, is even more difficult to climb, according to expert mountaineer Vanessa O’Brien. O’Brien is the fastest woman to climb the highest peak on every continent and the first American and […]

VIDEO: Most of us grew up thinking Mount Everest was the tallest mountain on Earth. Turns out, that isn't exactly true. The devil is in the detail.

VIDEO: Most of us grew up thinking Mount Everest was the tallest mountain on Earth. Turns out, that isn't exactly true. The devil is in the detail.

VIDEO: There is a strategic way to go to the bathroom in the harsh environment of Mount Everest.