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