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