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

They were the first mountaineers to die on Mount Everest in the current climbing ... Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the ...

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

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

Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and ...

Bodhraj Bhandari, Managing Director at Snowy Horizon Treks, confirmed that Ghosh died just below the Hillary Step, near the summit point of Mt Everest yesterday. Ghosh (45) was late in making his ...

In the last few years, the 70th anniversary of the first summit of Everest in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay has been marked, along with the centenary of the unsuccessful and fatal ...

Everest was first climbed in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. More than 300 people have died on Everest since then. Several climbers died in the region recently.

KATHMANDU — An Indian climber and another from the Philippines became the first mountaineers to die on Mount Everest in the current ... died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning ...

On Friday, May 16, word circulated that a climber from India named Subrata Gosh had died on Mount Everest after descending from the summit to the Hillary Step at an elevation of 28,839 feet.