Mountain Climbing Death Zone. In mountaineering the phrase death zone previously known as the lethal zone is a specified high altitude where the levels of oxygen available are unable to support human life. This is usually above 8 000 metres 26 247 feet.
Personally if i were going to climb everest again i would also be keen to spend as little time as possible on the mountain. He passed away in the death zone the area named for the low. Death zone is that section of everest where exhaustion extreme cold lack of oxygen and climbing hazards occur quite commonly and contribute to the death toll.
However i d go on a trek for a month start in jiri walk to namche bazaar and then spend lots of time acclimatising between 4 000 and 6 000m.
Personally if i were going to climb everest again i would also be keen to spend as little time as possible on the mountain. The concept was first conceived in 1953 by edouard wyss dunant a swiss doctor who called it the lethal zone. Known as the death zone only on 14 mountains worldwide can one step beyond the 8000 meter mark and know that no amount of training or conditioning will ever allow you to spend more than 48 hours. This point is generally tagged as 8 000 m 26 000 ft less than 356 millibars of atmospheric pressure.