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 ...

Tibetan natives called it Chomolungma, meaning “Goddess Mother of Mountains,” but the British named it after Sir George Everest, the crack surveyor who charted much of India.

Course Bookmaker by Gary Wiltshire and Paul Jones £20, published by Weatherbys. To have a life that's defined in the publi ...

Object Details Author Bruce, C. G Mount Everest Expedition, 1922 Contents Introduction, by Sir Francis Younghusband.--The narrative of the expedition, by Brigadier-General Hon. C.G. Bruce.--The first ...

From crowd-dividing Marmite to roast dinner saviours like Aunt Bessie's and Bisto, these are Britain's most iconic food ...

Pawan, a full-fledged Singapore citizen and a hiking enthusiast for the past two-and-a-half years, carried Shijo, a Singapore ...

The book tells how Sir George went from being an apprentice at Worcester’s Heenan and Froude to becoming one of the world’s foremost engineers, particularly in aeronautics. He founded Dowty ...

A central Illinois man climbed out of the regions corn and soy fields to summit the tallest mountain in the world — with his ...

A few of Hollywood’s biggest names are involved in a film coming to New Zealand to tell the story of one of our greatest achievements. The film Tenzing, which began filming in Nepal in May, is ...

Mills, from Harrogate, set a record time of 12:46:59 at the Bislett Games in Oslo last Friday. The 26-year-old’s new record time was incredibly six seconds faster than Sir Mo Farah’s time of ...

SIR GEORGE CORY, who died on May 7 at seventy-two years of age, had spent forty-four years of his life in South Africa. He received his scientific training at King's College, Cambridge, where he ...