His first summit of Everest was with the acclaimed mountaineer Rob Hall and Peter Hillary, Edmund’s son. In 1996, one of only two years over Apa’s climbing career in which he didn’t attempt ...

Of all deaths from 1950 to 2019 in non-Sherpa climbers during a summit bid on Mount Everest, about 35 per cent were caused by falls, with other leading causes being exhaustion (22 per cent ...