What Is Mount Everest’s Death Zone?

What Is Mount Everest’s Death Zone?

ByIsidory Minja

Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain at 8,848.86 meters (29,031 feet), attracts climbers who want to reach the summit for various reasons. Above 8,000 meters (26,247 feet), they enter what’s known as the Everest Death Zone, where the human body is pushed to its limits. Swiss doctor Edouard Wyss-Dunant named this zone in 1953, recognising…