At 29,032 feet, Mount Everest is the tallest in the world. Unfortunately, not everyone who ascends makes it down. Here's how ...

Dead bodies are a common sight on top of Mount Everest. "I cannot believe what I saw up there," Everest filmmaker Elia Saikaly wrote on Instagram last week. "Death. Carnage. Chaos. Lineups.

Expedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers' bodies that are becoming exposed on Mount Everest as its glaciers melt. Nearly 300 mountaineers have died on the peak since the first ...

Expedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers' bodies that are becoming exposed on Mount Everest as its glaciers melt. Nearly 300 mountaineers have died on the peak since the first ...

A Michigan couple have revealed they set the romantic bar high, by celebrating their 19th wedding anniversary from the summit ...

At much higher altitudes, our bodies cannot function properly. But if climbers want to summit Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world at 29,029 feet (8,848 meters or 5.5 miles) above sea ...

An extremely deep-dwelling and spooky-looking sea creature was discovered inside a vast trench off South American shores.

Climbing Mount Everest is one of the biggest challenges ... Now, experts have warned that as glaciers on the mountain melt, the dead bodies of many of these climbers are being exposed.

Human bodies cannot function properly above a certain altitude. We work best at sea level, where oxygen levels are adequate for our brains and lungs. But if climbers want to summit Mount Everest ...

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt. Everest's slopes in the decades since ...

There are still people who die with monotonous regularity on Everest. The mountain is really littered with bodies. Every year there are people -particularly on the descent, when they are tired and ...