Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld dwarfed by Mount Everest's enormous West Ridge in this 1963 photo. ... Having reached the summit via the West Ridge at 6:15 p.m., ...

Mount Everest, standing over 29,000 ... On May 22, 1963, Tom Hornbein and his companion, Willi Unsoeld, reached the summit of Everest by way of the West Ridge, then completed the first traverse ...

Tom Hornbein on the 29,028-foot summit of Mt. Everest. He and Willi Unsoeld climbed the West Ridge, descended by the South Col route, spent night exposed at 28,000 feet -- on the one night in 50 ...

The climbs on Mount Everest in 1963 stand alone in ... Jim Whittaker touched down on the summit of Mount Everest. ... Unsoeld, and the rest of the 1963 Everest Team humanized mountaineering by ...

Thomas F. Hornbein, a mountaineer and anesthesiologist who climbed into history, step by icy step, when he and his friend Willi Unsoeld scaled Mount Everest in 1963 — pioneering a route up the ...

Unsoeld died in an avalanche during an Outdoor Education Winter Expedition climb of Mount Rainier on March 4, 1979. Jornet said he was thrilled to see the route first-hand after he had been ...

Willi Unsoeld, a member of the first American expedition to summit Mount Everest, died in an avalanche on Mount Rainier in 1979. Krag said his mother became politically active in the 1970s and 80s.

Overcrowded with inexperienced climbers and polluted with waste, Mount Everest—one of the earth’s natural wonders—is in danger. How to fix the world’s highest peak.