Mount Everest Resources

Books

Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein, 1968

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer, 1997

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev, 1998

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis, 2011

High Adventure by Sir Edmund Hillary, 1953

Everest: A Trekker’s Guide by Kev Reynolds, 1995

Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to the top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay, 2001

Climbing Mount Everest: the bibliography: the literature and history of climbing the world’s highest mountain compiled by Audrey Salkeld and John Boyle, 1993

On Top of the World: The conquest of Mount Everest by Mary Ann Fraser, 1991

Articles

On Everest, Traffic Isn’t Just Inconvenient. It Can Be Deadly.
The New York Times, May 23, 2019

Nepal Says Everest Rules Might Change After Traffic Jams and Deaths
The New York Times, May 29, 2019

'It’s Been a Carnage’: Scenes From Mount Everest
The New York Times, May 23, 2019

How to Fix Everest
Outside Magazine, June 20, 2019

Mount Everest is full of garbage. A cleanup crew just hauled off 24,000 pounds of waste.
The Washington Post, June 6, 2019

Traffic jams are just one of the problems facing climbers on Everest
National Geographic, May 29, 2019

How Climate Change is Making Mount Everest More Dangerous
Climbing, May 29, 2019

Himalayan glaciers melting at alarming rate, spy satellites show
National Geographic, June 19, 2019

Pollution and Climate Change Are Making Mount Everest More Dangerous for Climbers, U.S. Scientist Warns
Time, June 4, 2019

Digital Archives

The James T. Lester Jr. Collection - Images from the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition

Everest 1963 The American Odyssey

Oral Histories

Jim Whittaker Oral History, 2013

Tom Hornbein Oral History, 2009