Mostdeaths on Mount Everestoccur in within the death zone during descents from the summit. Most of the climbers who have died on Mount Everest have died in the death zone. Rainbow Valley is the name given to this area on Everest where many have perished. The moniker refers to the collect...
They've evolved to thrive under these conditions. But what happens to a species when its ideal habitat starts to disappear? Are polar bears endangered? As we'll find out in the next section, it's not pretty at all. Polar Bear Population on Thin Ice Polar bears are strong swimmers but...
No matter how much mountain climbing experience one has, reaching the summit of Mount Everest is an almosttwo-month process. Although it only takes climbers about five days to travel from Base Camp to the summit and back, climbers first must spend time at various heights on Everest...
Travel is not only beneficial to our minds, bodies, and souls, but it will be important to many countries and communities that rely on tourism dollars to make ends meet. Now I’d like to go a bit more in depth with strategies for travelers to leave less of a mess behind. Pack with ...
As always, this is a labour of love, but it aligns with an important message I share all the time– it is time to pay attention to the information that matters, and what is going on in our world matters. The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and ...
But Pow is dead and so are about 200 poor souls stuck on Mount Everest. Their bodies are now used as landmarks and trail markers. “Green Boots” (see photo) died in 1996 and now serves as a waypoint marker that climbers use to gauge how near they are to the summit. “Green Boots...
littered with dead animals. As icing on the death cake, there's also an active volcano with an impressive lava lake. The area can also sometimes be dangerous to travel since it's located near the occasionally unruly border of Ethiopia and Eritrea, but that's not on the Danakil Depression....
There are only a few climbable routes to climb to the top of Mount Everest’s 29,029-foot peak. If you die at that altitude (which almost three hundred people have done), it is dangerous for the living to attempt to bring your body down for burial or cremation. Today, dead bodies ...
This is what happens to Abbi when a photo of her as a baby from September 11th was featured in media everywhere. This summer, though, Abbi takes on a summer job to take a break from her Baby Hope persona. Unfortunately for Abbi, though, Noah Stern wants to dig into just who else is...
littered with dead animals. As icing on the death cake, there's also an active volcano with an impressive lava lake. The area can also sometimes be dangerous to travel since it's located near the occasionally unruly border of Ethiopia and Eritrea, but that's not on the Danakil Depression....