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

It was also the year that Ernest Z. Sawyer Jr. opened Sawyer’s Bowladrome in Northborough Center.

According to Glacier Himalaya Treks and Expedition, a private group of experienced mountaineers that offers tours, the permit ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more ...

The new rate will come into effect from September and apply for the popular climbing April-May season along the standard ...

NORTHBOROUGH ― In 1953 Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to scale Mount Everest, and Russian dictator Joseph Stalin died.

For those who want to climb Mount Everest the fee will be $15,000 during the peak season, up 36% from its $11,000 fee, the ...

pioneered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Fees for the less popular September-November season and the rarely climbed December-February season will also ...

Nepal announced a more than 35% hike in Mount Everest climbing permit fees, marking the first increase in nearly a decade, ...