New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. The two were part of the ...

Having reached Everest's summit for the first time, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay shared, with elation and relief, their ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak ...

Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. His achievement ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak ...

There I was hobnobbing with the long, craggy face on our $5 banknote. Shooting the breeze on the balcony of his Himalayan ...

According to Nepal's Department of Mountaineering, 468 foreign climbers from 57 countries were given permits to climb Everest ...

On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit of ...

Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died at the age of 88, made it to the summit of Everest in 1953, and became the first man on the planet to reach its highest point. As a boy in New Zealand, Edmund ...

Everest was first climbed in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. More than 300 people have died on Everest since then.