Five frozen bodies have been retrieved around Mount Everest as thinning snow and ice expose the bodies of hundreds of climbers who have died attempting to scale the world's highest mountain.

On record, there are over 200 bodies frozen in time on Mt Everest and the ... has lain at the summit of Everest’s north side. His body lies in a small limestone cave at around 8,500 meters ...

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 ... the mountain, frozen in the "death ...

according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas ...

It is the sacred threshold to Mount Everest, with the most dramatic views ... rough track that crosses frozen streams and deep dry washes. In the days of Mallory and Irvine, it took a five-week ...

Larisa Pozdnyakova’s words, in her thick Russian accent, float to me from within the cave’s seemingly endless ... We know that Mount Everest is Earth’s highest peak, but the potential ...

An eight-member team of Icefall Doctors departed for Mt Everest's base camp from Namche Bazaar on March 9 to begin the work of fixing the climbing route up to Camp II. The team is responsible for ...