While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

Climbing Mt. Everest is an undeniably ambitious achievement. If this is an undertaking you wish to accomplish, here is our ...

He’s at the Fox Cities PAC on February 11 as part of the Viewpoint Speaker Series. His presentation, “70 Years of Everest: Peter Hillary,” will feature authentic, spine-tingling, often hilarious ...

Kanchha Sherpa bid farewell to Hillary and Norgay, and prayed for an auspicious journey as the two departed for Mt. Everest's summit to make history. He lamented on the crowds of climbers that ...

Sir Edmund Hillary ... Everest summit climber, and he's glad he had the chance. "There should be strict (environmental) regulations but the mountain should not be closed," he said. Mount Everest ...

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35% ... pioneered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Fees for the less popular ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest ...

Nepal is set to increase the cost of climbing Mount Everest, marking the first price ... The increased fees will apply to those seeking to summit the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak.

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more ... permits are issued each year for Everest. He said it was an “understandable step” from the government of Nepal.