A climbing guide atop Mount Everest captured video of the crowded summit ridge before a cornice collapsed in a tragedy in which two climbers went missing. A second video taken by the climbing ...

When asked in 1923 why one would aspire to climb Mount Everest, English mountaineer George Leigh Mallory uttered three immortal words: "Because it's there." For decades, the challenge presented by ...

Everest Disaster was a national bestseller and helped earn him the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of ...

Pemba Sherpa, a young Everest veteran from the village of Phortse ... but began to feel pressured by activists who saw the tragedy as a chance to press for improvements to the mountain guides ...

Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 disaster as it was about filmmaking. Many of the survivors had sworn they would never return to Everest.

The tragedy has also shed light on the dangers ... A Sherpa's job on Mount Everest is statistically more dangerous than America's most treacherous professions by far, according to a chart posted ...

Mountaineer Leslie Binns gave up his dream of conquering Everest to save another climber. Show more British mountaineer and former soldier Leslie Binns was just 400 metres from achieving his ...

Everest Disaster". It attempts to recreate the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Krakauer and portrays what he was going through ...

"There seems to be a disaster mystique around Everest that seems to only serve to heighten the allure of the place," filmmaker and director Jennifer Peedom, who has climbed Everest four times ...

“Imagine what could happen if the big ones burst out. There are many of them in the Everest region.” Officials from Nepal’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA ...

Saif Ali Khan's case has taken a new turn as the alleged attacker has been apprehended while roaming the streets of Mumbai. The latest CCTV footage reveals the individual casually making a ...