I need a sherpa.

Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was among the 35 members in the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the 29,032-foot peak on May 29, 1953. “It would be better ...

The last surviving member of the first mountaineering expedition to conquer Mount Everest is unhappy with the current state ...

Amidst a programme in New York today, the new executive committee under the leadership of renowned climber Jangbu Sherpa officially took charge of the USNCA board to lead the organisation.

it would mean the pair conquered the mountain 29 years before New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed summit in 1953. From our morning news briefing to a ...

5) Legendary Everest climber and Sherpa champion Sir Edmund Hillary, found a tuft of black hair at 19,000ft but his superstitious Sherpas took it and threw it away. 6) Hillary led an expedition to ...

The 1953 expedition that took Tenzing and Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, to Everest is called the John Hunt Expedition. There were 400 people involved, including 20 Sherpa guides. Tenzing was ...

With the pair’s fate never determined, the mountain's summit remained elusive until 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, successfully reached ...

As the world celebrates the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay — the youngest son of the legendary Sherpa talks about why the ...