At 6 A.M. on May 21, Nepali climbing guide Vinayak Jaya Malla gazed from the summit of Mount Everest for the ... The infamous Hillary Step—a 40-foot vertical rock that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ...

Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) peak.

Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...

so the Hillary Step as we once knew it no longer exists and has in large parts been replaced by a steep snow-covered slope. Intensely steep and complex, the North Face of Everest was first climbed ...

Correction: August 31, 2023 — An earlier version of this story misstated the location of the Hillary Step on Mount Everest and the proximity of the city of Skardu to K2. The Hillary Step is on ...

close to Hillary Step, a nearly vertical rock face just beneath the summit. Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Three climbers are missing, following five deaths already on the ...

Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.

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

The Department of Conservation (DOC) has approved filming on Malte Brun Pass near the Tasman Glacier and near the Hochstetter Icefall on the eastern side of Aoraki/Mount Cook, which will ‘double’ as ...