Everest Disaster was a national bestseller and helped earn him the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of ...

Everest Disaster". It attempts to recreate the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Krakauer and portrays what he was going through ...

Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 disaster as it was about filmmaking. Many of the survivors had sworn they would never return to Everest.

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Tibet, reportedly killing at least 126 on the Chinese side of the border and damaging more than 1,000 homes.

Nepal lies in a seismically active zone where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates converge, giving rise to the Himalayas and frequent earthquakes.

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 95 dead ... were deployed to the region to help with disaster relief. About 7,000 people live in ...