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

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

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 ...

Andrew Waugh, the surveyor general, named the peak for his former boss, Sir George Everest, and in 1865 the Royal Geographic Society adopted the title.

One day in 1852 in British-ruled India, a young man burst into an office in the northern Dehra Dun hill town and announced to his boss: "Sir, I have discovered the highest mountain in the world!" ...

The Tallest Mountain on Earth Mount Everest proudly stands as the tallest mountain in the world, towering at an incredible ...

Sir George Everest was Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843 who played an important role in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, a mission to map the entire Indian subcontinent with ...

The English name, Everest, was bestowed by the Royal Geographical Society in 1865 in honour of Sir George Everest, a British surveyor-general of India. Constantly growing Mount Everest is still ...

So close, yet so far Decades after Mallory’s death, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary became the first to reach Everest’s peak, summiting on May 29, 1953.

So close, yet so far Decades after Mallory’s death, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary became the first to reach Everest’s peak, summiting on May 29, 1953.

So close, yet so far Decades after Mallory’s death, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary became the first to reach Everest’s peak, summiting on May 29, 1953. In the ...

So close, yet so far Decades after Mallory’s death, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary became the first to reach Everest’s peak, summiting on May 29, 1953. In the ...