Following is a transcript of the video. Vanessa O'Brien: 26,000 feet or 8,000 meters, they do call the "death zone." The death zone is, you know, a part of what happens at height in the mountain.

After nearly a year of putting together this project on Everest, the thought of sending our climbers off for the last time onto the mountain is at once frightening and overwhelming. David ...

The lack of oxygen poses one of greatest threats to climbers who attempt to summit, with levels dropping to less than 40% when they reach the Everest “death zone.” The first target for ...

But if climbers want to summit Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world at 29,029 feet (8,848 meters or 5.5 miles) above sea level, they have to brave what's known as "The Death Zone" - the ...

Join me this March, which marks my 1 year anniversary of when I left for Nepal. When I'll be sharing my personal story not only of climbing Mount Everest and what life in the death zone is really like ...

If climbers want to summit Mount Everest, they have to brave its "death zone" - the part of the mountain above 8,000 meters. At that altitude, the air has so little oxygen that the body starts to ...

Between him and the summit of Mt Everest, however, lie temperatures in negative degrees, disease vectors, frigid weather and the ‘death zone’ — which not everyone is lucky enough to cross ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Mountaineers during their ascend to Mount Everest's summit, in Nepal. [AFP] An Indian ...