(CNN)-- Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack.

Beyond Irvine's family, there was another individual who wanted to know the answer to the mystery: the first confirmed man to summit Everest, Edmund Hillary. "I haven't the faintest idea," Hillary ...

IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to acclimatise their bodies to the deadly thin air on Mount Everest.  But ...

Sir Edmund Hillary and other Mount Everest pioneers say the world's tallest peak deserves a rest after a half century of more than 1,300 climbers scaling its slopes. Hillary, 83, is in Nepal to ...

Ohio State stands atop college football, but the Buckeyes know they cannot simply copy 2024 'playbook' word for word to ...

Maybe you can blame it on Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first humans ...

Everest was the final terrestrial objective ... thought themselves as British as the islanders themselves. Edmund Hillary the beekeeper was a big, burly, merry, down-to-earth fellow who had ...

Sir Edmund Hillary's daughter Sarah Hillary is setting out to conquer Everest in her own way. Photo / Amalia Osborne She’s internationally renowned for her work as an art conservator ...

Mt. Everest may get smart solar-powered traffic lights and advisory signs, all linked to the number of climbers and weather ...

about the inspirational life of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside fellow outsider New Zealander Edmund Hillary. A search is currently underway to cast the ...