It's been almost 30 years since the 1996 storm on Mount Everest claimed the lives of eight people: guides Andrew Harris, Rob Hall, and Scott Fischer; clients Doug Hanson and Yasuko Namba; and ...

More than 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest — the tallest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted to ...

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest is a 1997 film that chronicles the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest expeditions. It follows Krakauer’s experience climbing with Rob Hall’s group, detailing their struggles ...

Leading a team requires more than just an ability to make decisions. To be a strong leader, you need to possess an awareness of how people tick. What is your team capable of, and what problematic ...

Charlotte Fox's eyes were frozen behind her contact lenses. The snow had begun falling as Fox and her fellow climbers descended from the top of the world, the peak of Mount Everest, where she could ...

If we're being brutally honest here, it's pretty clear that few of we mere mortals will likely ever suck in a lungful of the thin, rarified air of even the lower slopes of Mount Everest, much less ...

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air recounted the tragic incidents on Everest in May 1996, when eight commercial climbers on a summit push died in a storm. Krakauer, an experienced journalist, was on the ...

Black patches of frostbitten skin still mark the face of Beck Weathers. He soaks his hands in a whirlpool and struggles to move his fingers, desperately trying to keep the blood flowing. Sound bad?

TELLURIDE, Colo. (AP) - A survivor of the deadly 1996 Mount Everest expedition has died at her home in Telluride, Colorado. Charlotte Fox was found dead in her home May 24 at age 61. Friends who were ...

“PEOPLE STILL THINK CLIMBING the Southeast Ridge of Everest is an adventure,” says American climber Pete Athans, 45, leader of the Everest 50th Anniversary Expedition, who summited the mountain for ...