Davo Karnicar's Sherpas assert that the body he discovered when skiing down Everest was of Scott Fisher, the Mountain Guide who died on Everest in 1996 PlanetMountain.com was sent the following news ...

Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

Could this be the body of Irvine, who fell from the spot where his ice axe was found? Lying at 27,000 feet, this last piece of evidence has brought a team of mountaineers to Everest to climb to ...

Everest. On Mt. Everest ... The inert gas, xenon, possesses a composition that dramatically increases the body’s ability to produce EPO. EPO (erythropoietin), a hormone that regulates the ...

Climbing Mt. Everest is an undeniably ambitious achievement. If this is an undertaking you wish to accomplish, here is our ...

Recent overcrowding on Everest has resulted in the deaths of at ... Over the course of weeks, the body starts to make more hemoglobin (the protein in red blood cells that helps carry oxygen ...

Conquering Mount Everest is no easy feat for the body, mind — and bank account. Nepal plans to increase the price of Everest climbing permits by about 36%, the first rise in almost a decade.

The documentary, entitled "Everest: The Death Zone," was about the deleterious effects of high altitude on the human body, especially on brain functions. I was to be not only the filmmaker ...

Further expeditions, including one on Everest itself proved the theory again ... up the process of "pre-acclimatizing" by boosting the body's EPO production, synthetic versions of which, are ...

Yet the implications go well beyond Everest. Xenon, an inert gas occasionally used as an anesthetic, apparently has the side effect of radically increasing the body's production of EPO ...