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 ...

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

Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first conquered Everest in 1953, the mountain has been the ultimate challenge for any climber. But as the prospect of humanity spreading throughout the ...

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 ...

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were immortalized when they became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 But the Himalayas had gripped adventurers from around the ...

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 ...

About 5,000 people have reached the summit of Mount Everest since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first made it to the top in 1953. About 306 people have died climbing the mountain ...

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 ...

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.