Did you know ?

Mount Everest is by far the most climbed of all eight-thousanders with more than 5000 successful ascents, but it remains a deadly mountain : there are more than 200 bodies lying in its Death Zone (above 8000 meters).

Scientists previously thought that due to its extremly high altitude, climbing Everest without bottled oxygen would be impossible. Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler prove them wrong by accomplishing this feat for the first time in 1978.