When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the tale - they doubted that the world's highest peak would ...

In 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary become the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Just under 10 years later, Norgay made his mark in another place of wild beauty — ...

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during his visit to ... and their historic ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, at 11:30 am. Soft-spoken and careful ...

The remains of a mountaineer who attempted to scale Mount Everest 100 years ago have been found by an expedition team led by ...

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, is in Dublin this week for celebrations marking New Zealand's 150th anniversary. Among his engagements, giving advice to ...

The remains of a British mountaineer who may have climbed Everest 100 years ago, 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary, have finally been discovered. Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappeared on the ...

Everest. John West is Professor of Medicine and Physiology in the School of Medicine, University of California San Diego. He was a physiologist on Sir Edmund Hillary's Silver Hut expedition in ...

The "one-of-a-kind" visitor centre was among 23 buildings recognised as the best of Aotearoa's architecture.

It is home to many record-holding Sherpa mountaineers, including Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first person to climb Mount Everest along with explorer Edmund Hillary. But on 16 August, the village ...

Kami Rita Sherpa broke his own record not just once, but twice after summiting Everest for a 24th time At least 11 people have died trying to climb Mount ... Zealander Edmund Hillary, to reach ...

Tenzing Norgay When Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, he had no idea how his life would change. From that moment on, Tenzing became an ...