I returned to Everest the following year ... who'd been with the South African team. Bruce was hanging upside down near the bottom of the Hillary Step, like Captain Ahab lashed to his White ...

The pair are now feared dead after ice collapsed and fell on them near the Hillary Step, just below the summit at around 8,800 metres, according to Lapka Sherpa. The Everest guide said they had ...

There's no way around the Second Step ... reach the summit of Everest in 1924, what does that matter? And in a way, does it really change anything? Because after all, Hillary and Tenzing did ...

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during his visit to support our Malaysia Everest 1997 Project ... to me that I was a step behind Hillary, then I must ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal --The first man to conquer Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, has criticized modern-day climbers for holding drunken parties at base camp, on the eve of the Golden Jubilee celebrations ...

On 7 October the Slovenian Davo Karnicar made the first uninterrupted ski descent of the South Face of Everest On 7 October the Slovenian ... his skis Karnicar skied down the crest, past the Hillary ...