The Hillary Step as it looked last week, in a photo taken by Tim Mosedale Days after a British mountaineer claimed that a famous rock feature near the summit of Mount Everest had disintegrated ...

Two climbers fell to their deaths on Mount Everest on May 21 after an ice cornice collapsed. Eyewitness accounts and video clips provide an inside look at the disaster and frantic aftermath.

Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) peak.

Hillary Step. The Hillary Step was a steep 40ft wall of rock and ice encountered on the classic route from Nepal, ... The Hillary Step on Mount Everest. The north face of Mount Everest.

The Day Hillary and Tenzing Reached Everest’s Summit Seventy-two years ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the ...

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Climbers have to navigate thick traffic jams, a filthy, sprawling base camp — and increasingly, death — while trying to get to the world’s highest Instagram hot spot.

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. ... we crossed the Hillary Step, ...

"The team have found the Kenyan climber dead between the summit and the Hillary Step, but his guide is still missing," CBS News reported Khim Lal Gautam, a Nepalese government official, told AFP.