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

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35% ... pioneered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Fees for the less popular ...

Nepal is to increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35% ... pioneered by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Fees for the less popular ...

Nepal’s new road connecting the Everest region to Kathmandu promises ... The Himalayan Trust’s airport in Lukla, built by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1964, remains a vital hub for trekkers and ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

Since it was first summited by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, the time taken to reach Everest's summit has been getting progressively shorter. According to data collected by the ...

The Himalayan Trust, a charity established by Edmund Percival Hillary, one of the first to summit Mount Everest, built the airport in Lukla in 1964. It began as a modest airstrip on flat farmland to ...

Nepal announced a more than 35% hike in Mount Everest climbing permit fees ... pioneered by New Zealanders Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Fees for the less popular ...

Joy, pain and an uncomfortable truth at the heart of every climber’s story - IN FOCUS: It’s an extreme adventure playground that is there for the conquering – but increasingly, there are distressing ...

not Sir Edmund Hillary, were the first climbers to reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1924. However, his only lead to break the story — an elusive mountain climber known as Habu Joji — has ...

Buoyed by tales of Everest legends – George Mallory, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tenzing, and their pioneering Nepali porters – I decide to double my load and carry a lagging team member’s ...