The son of New Zealand beekeepers, Edmund Hillary developed a love of mountain climbing at a young age. And in the 1950s, he had the opportunity to join British expeditions with the goal of climbing ...

After six years of failure, near-death experiences on Everest, and walking away just 900 metres from the summit, Samir Patham ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century’s greatest adventurers, has died, Prime Minister Clark of ...

New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, died in hospital on Friday. He was 88.

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on top of the world. ... At the end of 1951 Hillary joined a British Everest Reconnaissance expedition and a year later was invited on another British ...

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. “They should not be dirtying the ...

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.

Sir Edmund Hillary, who climed Mount Everest with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay 50 years ago, says he is equally proud of what he did with rest of his life: helping Sherpa people of Himalayas; ...

There is a striking photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary taken in his climbing prime -- jaw set, eyes leveled, the face a massif, relentless -- set in a banner outside National Geographic's Explorers ...

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 ...

With re-enactments and archival material, Leanne Pooley recounts Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Mount Everest. By Ben Kenigsberg Bally offers an updated version of the boots that ...