He doesn’t say so, but he’s referring to three of his and his wife’s relatives — three Sherpas who died on another ascent of Mount Everest, who fell into a crevasse during an avalanche on ...

Imagine looking down at your feet as you cross a crevasse on an aluminum ladder. As you turn your head left or right, you can see along the crevasse in either direction, and you can see the ...

The three major causes of death were avalanches onto the icefall (49% of deaths), icefall collapse (33%), and falling into a crevasse (13%), according to Alan Arnette, a Mount Everest summiter and ...

Vadium Druelle of France fell into a crevasse on the icy mountain while ... three years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled Mt. Everest for the first time. Unfortunately, the ...

Hanging in a crevasse.” A crevasse is a deep crack in a glacier, and Mount Rainier — which lies about three hours southeast of Seattle — is the “most heavily glaciated peak in the ...

Annapurna has a higher death rate than Mt. Everest, per CBS News ... and another hiker fell into a crevasse but was later rescued. Hanna's sister, Irene Hunter, told the BBC that her brother ...