Why is Everest increasingly deadly? In part, you can blame climate change

Increased avalanches and other disasters lead to dozens of fatalities.

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Mt. Everest from base camp.

Seventy years ago this week, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and local guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to climb the world’s highest point, Nepal’s Mount Everest.

Along the way, …