Are people lining up to die on Mount Everest?

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Every year, adventurers brave the elements and attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Yet dangers abound, and more than a hundred bodies litter the mountain. Listen in and learn more about Mount Everest in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

Elia Saikaly has climbed Mount Everest eight times. He's reached the top three times. But after his most recent climb, Saikaly is wondering if he can ever go back again. He was one of many climbers caught in the 'traffic jam' at more than 8000 meters elevation - and the deaths he ...  Show more

In this week’s episode of The All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall revisits the 1996 Mount Everest disaster — one of the deadliest seasons in the mountain’s history — to explore what really went wrong and how it changed climbing forever. Discover why eight cli ...  Show more

Send a textWe have gone in caves, we have dived under the water, now let's climb a mountain, specifically Mount Everest. Making it to the summit of Mount Everest is a legendary feat, so we can only assume the deaths trying to accomplish this accolade are also unlike any other. Th ...  Show more