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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and to those disrupted and displaced by this horrific and sad tragedy. (Related Article) John Waechter reached the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 ft.) on May 25th, 2001. With the ascent of Mt.

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.

Nepal lies in a seismically active zone where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates converge, giving rise to the Himalayas and frequent earthquakes.

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 ...

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 ...

Misfortune and triumph just days apart shows the need for rigorous preparation to conquer Everest and survive in the most hostile conditions, experts say. "Tragedy, deaths and drama play a vital ...

Whenever the tragedy is recalled ... Mallory was already a hero in the public's eyes when he went to Everest in 1924 and, after all, what time has a 22-year old had to make much of a mark on ...