Sir Edmund Hillary and other Mount Everest pioneers say the world's tallest peak deserves a rest after a half century of more than 1,300 climbers scaling its slopes. Hillary, 83, is in Nepal to ...

A climbing guide atop Mount Everest captured video of the crowded ... “After summiting, we crossed the Hillary Step, traffic was moving slowly then suddenly a cornice collapsed a few meters ...

Hillary took the first step onto the summit, with Norgay close behind. They were the first, but since their groundbreaking climb, more than 6,600 people have reached the top of Mount Everest.

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest ... the first confirmed man to summit Everest, Edmund Hillary. "I haven't the faintest idea," Hillary said in an early 2000s interview ...

(CNN)-- Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack.

I had done my homework, reading extensively about him, his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay, and their historic ascent of Mount Everest on ... to me that I was a step behind Hillary, then I must ...