A New Hampshire man who climbed Mt. Everest said he's haunted by images of long lines at the mountain's peak in a year in which 11 people have died.Since the early 1950s, at least 200 climbers ...

Mt. Everest is Crowded Since Hillary's famous feat in 1953, 11,996 climbers ( 6,664 different climbers ) have reached the summit of Mt. Everest, and the overall traffic has taken a dramatic toll.

Read more: 11 pictures that show just how dangerous Mount Everest really is. In addition to the crowds, fewer good days of weather, inexperienced climbers, and Nepal giving a record number of ...

One more mountaineer is presumed dead on the mountain. A total of five people have died this week on Mount Everest, as crowds of climbers experienced bottlenecks in the rush to take advantage of a ...

So far, 11 people have died climbing Mount Everest in Nepal in the 2019 hiking season, amidst overcrowding. But what exactly about this three-ring circus in the clouds is killing mountaineers?

An American climber became the latest to perish after reaching the world's tallest summit on Monday amid concerns that overcrowding on Mount Everest is leading the highest number of deaths on the ...

mount everest death spike prompting review of 'all the old laws,' nepal official says Video filed by Rohtash Khileri and posted to Instagram shows dozens of climbers as they wait in line before ...

Reporting from NAMCHE, Nepal — Scaling Mt. Everest was a dream few realized before Nepal opened its side of the mountain to commercial climbing half a century ago. This year the government ...

The race towards the highest mountain on earth: a multitude of summits, long queues and, like every year, too many deaths. By Vinicio Stefanello. Between the 25th and 26th of May 150 people reached ...

A journalist, climber, and public speaker, Alan Arnette is one of the world’s most respected chroniclers of Mount Everest. He climbed the world’s highest peak in 2011 and reached the summit of ...

A new book details the elaborate industry that has developed around Mt. Everest and the hundreds of climbers who attempt to scale it each year. REUTERS In April, 2013, a group of Sherpas, the ...

Everest guide Adrian Ballinger is breaking with decades of tradition to create what he believes are better and more ethical ways to climb the world’s tallest mountain.