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.

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 ...

English actor Tom Hiddleston has been spotted in Queenstown this week as he films a movie playing New Zealand’s greatest ...

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… ...

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.

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

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 ...

Lady June Hillary died on 1 June 2024 surrounded by her daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren in the Auckland care home overlooking the green fields and leafy avenues of Cornwall Park. A ...

A new trophy honouring Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest, will be contested whenever the All Blacks and England play each other, the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) said on Thursday.

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 ...