Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was among the 35 members in the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the 29,032-foot peak on May 29, 1953. “It would be better ...

The discovery was made by a National Geographic team on the mountain's north face. A shocking fact that brings us back, most ...

I need a sherpa.

it would mean the pair conquered the mountain 29 years before New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed summit in 1953. From our morning news briefing to a ...

Amidst a programme in New York today, the new executive committee under the leadership of renowned climber Jangbu Sherpa officially took charge of the USNCA board to lead the organisation.

5) Legendary Everest climber and Sherpa champion Sir Edmund Hillary, found a tuft of black hair at 19,000ft but his superstitious Sherpas took it and threw it away. 6) Hillary led an expedition to ...

The 1953 expedition that took Tenzing and Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, to Everest is called the John Hunt Expedition. There were 400 people involved, including 20 Sherpa guides. Tenzing was ...

With the pair’s fate never determined, the mountain's summit remained elusive until 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, successfully reached ...

It will apply to the South East Ridge or South Col route. That is the same route used by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, Reuters reported. Last year, Nepal, which counts on ...