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

Authorities in Nepal have denied reports that the famed “Hillary Step” on Mount Everest has collapsed, despite a veteran climber saying he saw it first hand during an ascent last week.

The Hillary Step as it looked last week, in a photo taken by Tim Mosedale Days after a British mountaineer claimed that a famous rock feature near the summit of Mount Everest had disintegrated ...

Adventurers Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay stand atop the world as the first climbers to reach the summit. Read more.

Mount Everest's Hillary Step—a rocky outcrop just below the summit—is now a slope, say climbers who recently returned from the mountain. The condition of the rock face named after Everest's ...

Subscribe today. Nepal’s tourism ministry proposed installing ladders on Everest’s Hillary Step for a second time early Monday morning. The government body already announced that additional ...

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(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.

Mount Everest's Hillary Step -- a rocky outcrop just below the summit -- is now a slope, say climbers who recently returned from the mountain. The condition of the rock face named after Everest's ...