Green Boots is one of the famous markings that is used by climbers as a marking during their path to the top. As per the name, it is a pair of bright green boots underneath a caved area on the mountain, but those boots are being worn by a man who has been stuck on Everest for nearly twenty years.

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 Indo-Tibetian Border Police officials Subedar Tsewang Smanla ...

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 summit Everest. Things took a dark turn that day when an ...

MARBLEHEAD, Mass. — David Breashears, a pioneering mountaineer and filmmaker who co-produced and co-directed a documentary about Mount Everest in 1998, was found dead at his Massachusetts home on Thursday. He was 68. Breashears was found unresponsive at ...

About 350 hikers caught in the storm have been guided to safety by rescuers, Reuters reported. They were taken to the small township of Qudang, near the eastern slope of Everest. A male hiker, 41, reportedly died of hypothermia and acute altitude sickness, according to Xinhua, a Chinese state media outlet.