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 ...

While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

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

Sir Edmund Hillary ... scaling its slopes. Hillary, 83, is in Nepal to mark 50 years since he and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of the 29,035ft ...

The first-ever all-women’s winter expedition from Bangladesh to Nepal’s Himalayan Langtang region took place in December 2024. We spoke to the country’s female mountaineers to find out the challenges ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since I was invited by Sir Edmund Hillary to take part ... factors that allow climbers to reach extreme altitudes—particularly the summit of Everest—without supplementary oxygen.

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 ...

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 ...