“Everest has become too commercialized with ‘you’re stepping over dead bodies’ and ‘it’s littered with trash,’” the mountain coach said. “The reality is that it is a very small ...

one mountaineer could not move for half an hour after seeing a dead body on the way to Mount Everest. Many people cannot ...

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 ...

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.