A few days ago I got an email from a man named Apa Tenzing Sherpa, an Everest summiter and mountaineer. He called my attention to a web page that he oversees via the Climbing Gear Lab which posts helpful, interesting and well-written articles about mountaineering and rock climbing gear, technique as well as general geographical information. He asked if I’d be interested in including a link to one of his articles on my blog* since it related to my post on the Mount Everest Marathon. The article, entitled Mount Everest Deaths Statistics by Year (1922-2019) , is self-explanatory; it summarizes the deaths over the past 100 years on Mount Everest alone. Since I studied up on the dangers of high-altitude exposure and climbing in extreme weather conditions for sections of my book Running Everest , I am all too familiar with the risks; yet, people still die every year attempting to summit (or descend) the highest mountain on earth. A decision to climb any mountain should be ...