An experienced Austrian mountaineer named Lukas Furtenbach has shortened Everest trips to weeks with “flash” expeditions that used hypoxic tents. He approached the four men with the idea of cutting ...

Thirty-eight-year-old Anton Tselykh is hospitalized in satisfactory condition. He is the lone survivor of a climbing tragedy ...

The party of 4 is said to have attached their ropes to a piton left in the rock by other climbers, which may have torn free ...