Climbing Mount Everest is one of the hardest athletic feats a person can do.
But new research out this week suggests that it has gotten easier to pull off in recent years.
The study found the success rate of climbing the highest mountain on Earth has doubled.
About 2/3 of climbers during 2006 to 2019 reached the summit and survived.
But the probability of dying has remained essentially constant, at about 1%,”.
From 1990 to 2005, the rate of success was around one-third.
