Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the ...

On this date in history: In 1660, Charles II was restored to the English throne. In 1790, Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1914, the ...

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally reached the 29,035ft summit at 11.30am local time on May 29, 1953. They were members of a British expedition led by John (later Lord) Hunt which forged a ...

Reaching heights of around 620 miles (1,000km) these continent-sized “islands” of rock dwarf anything else found on our ...

Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was one of the legendary team of 35 to reach the summit of the 29,032-foot peak on May 29, 1953, with Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. “They should not be dirtying the ...

It was also the year that Ernest Z. Sawyer Jr. opened Sawyer’s Bowladrome in Northborough Center.

Everest's slopes in the decades since Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, made their historic climb. And the picture they are painting isn't pretty. From our morning ...

First climbed in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the Hillary Step is the last obstacle barring access to the gently angled summit slopes. Modern-day climbers use a fixed rope up here to ...

Mt. Everest was first summited by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 via The South Col route. Since their historic accomplishment, their path has been the most traveled. This is ...

and it carries with it the promise of the next-generation Defender – an off-roader so accomplished and so ubiquitous that calling it the Sir Edmund Hillary (or Tenzing Norgay) of automobiles ...

Local and international groups are offering new cleanup strategies. Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest/Chomolungma in 1953, commercial mass mountaineering has put ...

NORTHBOROUGH ― In 1953 Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to scale Mount Everest, and Russian dictator Joseph Stalin died.