Rope fixing teams have completed the route to the top, the first client climbers have reached the summit, and a wave of expeditions is hoping to get up and down before foul weather blows in.

Mount Everest claimed its third life in a fortnight after a young Sherpa guide tumbled into an icy chasm on the world’s tallest peak. Phura Gyaljen Sherpa, 21, lost his footing in the snow and plummeted into an ice fracture near Camp III,

About 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. In Everest Dark, famed climber Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an expedition to bring one home.

A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have declined significantly in recent decades—despite a dramatic increase in the number of people attempting the world's highest.

Two Indian climbers are believed to have died while descending the mountain this week, after climbing the peak on Thursday. View on euronews