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The bottom there is 10,924 meters (35,840 feet) below sea level. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, were placed at this location it would be covered by over one mile of water.
Since last Thursday four people have died on the 29,035-foot peak, including a Sherpa. Rescue efforts are ongoing for two other missing climbers. Everest is a mountain of extremes, said Jon Kedrowski, a geographer and climber who summited Mount Everest in 2012, when 10 climbers died. At altitude, the body deteriorates on a certain level.