This is the first rock a climber touches on the route up Everest. It becomes very obvious when one has reached this point in the climb—one's crampons hit hard rock. The top of the yellow band is ...

Mt. Everest was first summited by Sir Edmund Hillary ... left high camp very late in the season and climbed through the Yellow Band where Roskelley turned back. Phil continued solo on steep ...

From the camp you look directly up the North Col, but what really dominates the view from ABC is the Northeast shoulder of Everest with ... just below the Yellow Band. From here, we can look ...