As Ice Melts, Everest's 'Death Zone' Gives Up Its Ghosts

More than 300 people have died on Everest since the 1920s, eight this climbing season alone (Credit: AFP)

On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain.

Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, but risking their own lives to bring some of the corpses down.