Those who’ve trodden trails before us, from Sir Edmund Hillary to Henry David Thoreau, have left painted literary pictures that inspire the next generation to push beyond their own perceived ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal --The first man to conquer Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, has criticized modern-day climbers for holding drunken parties at base camp, on the eve of the Golden Jubilee celebrations ...

Tenzing Norgay When Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, he had no idea how his life would change. From that moment on, Tenzing became an ...

Edmund Hillary had scaled Mt Everest ... At 10:21pm, seven hours into the journey, the locomotive came off the line at the severely weakened Tangiwai bridge, dragging several coaches into the ...