Mount Everest holds a special aura for hardcore climbers ... “Last year there was one vertical wall in the Icefall but after so many people climbed it you’d barely rate it fifth-class.” ...

Climbing Mount Everest had long been an obsession of Westerners ... “There were careers to be made.” An image of a wall of snow and ice that descended upon Everest’s base camp in 2015 ...

In the years since human beings first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, climbing the world’s highest mountain has changed dramatically. Today, hundreds of mountaineers manage the feat ...