A woman with incurable breast cancer is preparing to travel to the Himalayas to take part in the world's highest marathon.

One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the world’s highest peak for the 31st time ... climbed in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

Why Nepal Is Tightening Everest Access Since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first summited Everest (8,848.86 metres) on May 29, 1953, over 9,000 climbers have reached the peak ...

An expedition is planning to take clients up the world's tallest mountain in record time with xenon gas. But some in the ...

Official data shows that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 9,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest ...

In his latest dispatch from the hike to Mount Everest Base Camp, the writer discusses how the booming tourism industry has ...

Mitch Hutchcraft is attempting the world’s longest triathlon (Stan Gaskell/PA) A former Royal Marine is attempting to complete the world’s longest triathlon which he started in the UK and will ...

The Nepalese government is now making moves to tighten access to the world’s highest peak, proposing that ... summited in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali ...

Three hours after departing Phakding, we crossed the final, and highest, suspension bridge, which is named after Sir Edmund Hillary ... You’ve probably seen photos of Namche Bazaar perched ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the world's highest peak for the 31st ... in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing ...

Mr Hutchcraft said the stay replicated that of the first climbers of Everest in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. “It was nice following in history whilst making history,” Mr Hutchcraft ...