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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

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 ...