We reveal how the crux impacts the overall grade of a route and consider famous examples from climbing history ...

The spring climbing season has begun in the iconic Himalayas, when mountaineers flock to the roof of the world and the earth's highest mountains. In recent year ...

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(CNN)-- Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame ... during World War II in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Hillary began climbing while in high school and traveled to the central Himalayas ...

First climbed in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay ... to ascend the Hillary Step. We marvel at Hillary and Tenzing's achievement in climbing this impressive mountaineering obstacle ...

Edmund Hillary the beekeeper was a big, burly, merry, down-to-earth fellow who had learned to climb in his own New Zealand Alps but had climbed in Europe and in the Himalayas too. He was an ...

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during his visit to ... reading extensively about him, his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay, and their historic ascent ...

A simulated climb of Everest carried out in a low-pressure ... He was a physiologist on Sir Edmund Hillary's Silver Hut expedition in 1960-1961, and led the 1981 American Medical Research ...

Mt. Everest may get smart solar-powered traffic lights and advisory signs, all linked to the number of climbers and weather ...