Ponant Explorations announced it is supporting an expedition retracing the steps of the 1985 journey to the Geographic North ...

On May 29, 1977, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was one of the legendary team of 35 to reach the summit of the 29,032-foot peak on May 29, 1953, with Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

The remains of a British mountaineer who may have climbed Everest 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary have finally been discovered. Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappeared on the world’s highest ...

Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88 Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.

New Zealand mountaineer Peter Hillary talked as part of the Wheeler Opera House’s Changemaker Speaker Series on Friday in Aspen. While he is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his ...

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on top of the world. Around them spread the snow-covered ridges and peaks of the Himalayas: frozen crests of huge, earth-driven waves. Far below chasms and ...

The statues of New Zealander Edmund Hillary, left, and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay, who became the first climbers to reach the top of 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) Everest on May 29, 1953 is seen ...

MARTINEZ: The most e-mailed at the BBC News, which is Sir Edmund Hillary, dead at the age of 88. He was one of the first men to reach - I'm saying one of the first men… ...

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