Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s ...

Major Everest rule change planned to only permit climbers who have scaled at least one 7,000m peak - New bill criticised by ...

The 8,848.86 metre Mt. Everest tempts many ardent climbers. As of now, nearly 9,000 mountaineers have made it to the summit from the Nepal side since Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Edmund Hillary first ...

The most famous physical feature on Everest, the Hillary Step, at 28,750 feet, is a 40-foot spur of snow and ice. First climbed in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the Hillary Step is ...

(CNN)-- Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack.

Sir Edmund Hillary and other Mount Everest pioneers say the world's tallest peak deserves a rest after a half century of more than 1,300 climbers scaling its slopes. Hillary, 83, is in Nepal to ...

One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the world’s highest peak for the 31st time — and possibly the 32nd time as well — and break his own record ...

I returned to Everest the following year ... Near the base of the Hillary Step we found the last vestige of the 1996 disasters, the body of Bruce Herrod, the photojournalist who'd been with ...

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during his visit to support our Malaysia Everest 1997 Project. At the time, I was editing a newspaper that was a major ...