Climbers Now Twice as Likely to Reach Top of Everest Climbers trying to reach the top of Mount Everest are twice as likely to succeed compared to 20 years ago. Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, Davis. compared data on climbers trying to reach the top of Everest between 1990 and 2005 to those climbing between 2006 and 2019. Two-thirds of all first-time climbers now get to the top, while […]