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.) ...

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 ...

I had done my homework, reading extensively about him, his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay, and their historic ascent of Mount Everest ... Tenzing as the first to reach the summit.

Breashears reached the summit of Mount Everest ... he became the first American citizen to reach the summit of the mountain in the Himalayas twice. Breashears and his team were filming their ...

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 ...

If climbers want to summit Mount Everest, they have to brave ... attempting a solo summit climb with her team of Sherpas. The team was the first to summit that year, reaching the top on May ...