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24% in 2000, to 64% in 2013. that's due mainly to better, gear, better guides, and improved weather forecasting. but conrad anker warns even the best climbers are never really safe on mount everest. >> if your a good climber, you can make it to the summit within your safety parameters, but you're all equal when you're walking through that "ballroom of death." >> reporter: the "ballroom of death" is what some climbers call those areas where avalanches are most likely, jeff, and where they say the difference between life and death is not training or natural ability. it's luck. >> chip reid, than...

Strengthening the position of the syrian regime. >> pelley: holly williams >> holly williams reporting from turkey tonight, thanks, holly. gene therapy is improving the vision of patients who were losing their sight. there's a verdict in the case of a woman charged with driving while wearing google glasses. and we're on board an icebreaker that is keeping the great lakes open when the western edition of the "cbs evening news" continues. at the dr.sct mapping center. then i got my number, which matched the custom fit orthotic inserts with the right support. find your closest foot mapping center...

Winter. shipments of ore and coal to the region's fuel mill have been delayed days, canceled or stuck in the ice which now covers more than a third of lake michigan. slow going? >> very slow going. it took us 17 hours to move a ship seven miles. >> reporter: wow. at 3,500 tons, the "mackinaw" is the biggest and newest ice breaker on the great lakes. older ice breakers ride up on the ice and break it using the ship's weight. >> 176, sir. >> reporter: on the mackinaw, ensign michael cooper manipulates the propulsion system to churn up the ice like a blender. >> the beam of our boat is 58 feet wi...

Tuesday about 1700 miles south of new zealand. bill whitaker has more. >> reporter: passengers and crew aboard the research vessel "akademik shokalskiy" had to endure fierce antarctica conditions the last two days-- temperatures well below freezing, winds approaching 50 miles per hour. australian climate scientist chris turney is filing video updates from the distressed vessel at the bottom of the earth. >> the vessel hasn't moved for the last two days and we're surrounded by sea ice, we just can't get through. >> reporter: the ship left new zealand november 28 on a month- long scientific expe...

Oxygen, and it's likely eating away at the coral reefs. >> we're talking decades, centuries, thousands of years for some of these corals and in hawaii it's a very distressed environment to begin with. >> reporter: complicating the cleanup the company that caused the spill says it has plans for oil and chemical fills but none for molasses. as officials figure how to get rid of the mess, the toll grows higher. most these fish are in the harbor in hawaii. what is the impact of molasses. >> it seems everything at all depths and levels of food chain are being affected. >> the impact also extends to...