Tents are set up on the sandy gravel valley, which carves out a north-south swath in the high ... Band and up onto the Northeast Ridge. The First Step is the terminal prow of two gray limestone ...

Magendran and N. Mohanadas proudly ... celebrate Tenzing as the first to reach the summit. After all, he was the one featured in the only photo taken at the top of Everest. The reason?

Using a method developed by his father and perfected at home in the Canadian Rockies, Wheeler was able to create the first map of Everest and one that is still in use today. Watch Wheeler’s Everest.

The first concerns the young Sherpa Temba Tscheri, whom we mentioned in early April. On 23 May the fifteen year old Nepali reached the summit of Everest from the North without using supplementary ...

When it comes to preparing for the great outdoors, indoors, few movements are as suited to building mountain legs as the humble box step-up. The CrossFit Hero WOD ‘Chad’, which challenges you ...

From here, the snow ridge rises 1,000 feet to the South Summit and gently arcs to the north ... on Everest, the Hillary Step, at 28,750 feet, is a 40-foot spur of snow and ice. First climbed ...