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 ...

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

But most controversial of all was the question of who was truly the first to step atop the summit of Everest—Tenzing or Hillary ... Finally we reach a place where we can see past the humps ...

From here, climbers have a stupendous view of the upper 8,000 feet of Everest ... Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the Hillary Step is the last obstacle barring access to the gently angled ...

The world this week is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first successful effort to reach ... Everest's slopes in the decades since Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese Sherpa guide, Tenzing ...

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 ...

The allure of climbing Mount Everest ... the mountain's summit remained elusive until 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, successfully reached ...

International Everest Day is celebrated in the main cities of Australia in the memory of the first successful attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay ...

By the time Tenzing was 19, he had relocated to Darjeeling - a mountain valley famous for its tea in northeast India. When Tenzing made it to the summit ... Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, to ...