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 ...

Only a handful of people have stood atop Everest. Krakauer is one of them ... Krakauer had a front-row seat to the headline-making 1996 climbing disaster that resulted in the deaths of five people, ...

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 ...

Nepali airlines have resumed rescue helicopter flights to the Everest region, an aviation industry official announced Tuesday ...

A report by TASS, citing a military expert, claimed that Russian forces killed over 7200 Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries in Luhansk within a week. The report claimed that the mercenaries ...