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.

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For anyone who has struggled to schedule a specialist appointment or sift through a mountain of insurance paperwork, the ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

Prominent in the former category is, naturally, Tenzing Norgay, New Zealander Edmund Hillary’s summitting ... Today, the mantle of Sherpa “rock star” is firmly on the shoulders of Nirmal ...

Times-Union readers want to know: I read that Hillary Clinton was forced to return $28,000 worth of furniture and art after she and her husband left the White House. Is that true? There was a ...

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 ...

The Everest Marathon was designed to celebrate the legendary climbers, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary, who completed their shocking ascent on Everest in 1953. Starting from Everest ...

The first successful ascent of Everest was made on May 29, 1953, by New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay. Despite its awe-inspiring views, the mountain has earned the nickname ...