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

A rally wound through the streets of Kathmandu on Thursday, marking 72 years since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first ...

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

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 ...

Why is climbing Mount Everest so dangerous? Ever since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Sherpa Tenzing Norgay summited the 8,849 metres (29,032 feet) high Mt Everest, popular as ...

“Tenzing,” a film about the true story of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay’s 1953 trek to the summit of Mount Everest alongside Edmund Hillary, has been snapped up by Apple Original Films. Casting is ...

about the inspirational life of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside fellow outsider New Zealander Edmund Hillary. A search is underway to cast the lead role of ...

After nine grueling days of hiking to get here, I am wondering if I will have the energy to get out of my sleeping bag at 6 a.m. to prepare for the Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon, the world’s ...

Decorations at the Khumjung School, established by Edmund Hillary, ahead of Everest Day celebrations in the village of Khumjung, located in the shadow of Mount Everest, about 140km northeast of ...

Hillary had come a long way after being badly burnt in an accident while navigating Catalina flying boats in the Second World War. Before Everest, he had made a living as a beekeeper, in large ...