Seventy-two years after Sir Edmund Hillary became the first person to summit Mount Everest, Alex Hillary is carrying on his ...

Seventy-two years after his grandfather Sir Edmund Hillary became the first person to summit Mt Everest, Alex Hillary is ...

She and her husband were the first people to travel the length of the Americas in an amphibious vehicle. But he was ...

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NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound ...

Climbing Season to Begin on Mt. Everest Climbers from around the world will soon complete their Mt. Everest preparations, and their expeditions will depart for ...

A woman fell 65ft to her death when her heel slipped from a ledge during a scrambling expedition with friends in Snowdonia, ...

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and his climbing partner, Tenzing Norgay, became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Peter’s talk on Friday was titled “70 ...

The mountain's summit remained elusive until 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, successfully reached the summit. They approached from the South ...