A British student hopes to become the first deafblind person to reach the summit of Mount ... two deaf American climbers to achieve the incredible feat. 'The idea of climbing Everest initially ...

When we planned the 1981 American ... for a climber to reach the summit without supplementary oxygen. It was not possible to put a bicycle ergometer on the top of Mt. Everest; there is a limit ...

The mountaineer and climber Vanessa Estol became on Saturday the first person of Uruguayan nationality to reach the summit of Mount Everest (8,848.86 meters above sea level). Vanessa, who also has ...

Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with ... Bishop was on the first U.S. expedition to summit Everest. (See the story from the October 1963 issue of National Geographic.) ...