When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ended on March 2, 1958, it marked what many called the last great adventure possible on Earth: an overland crossing of the Antarctic continent.

Kanchha Sherpa was the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become ...

With re-enactments and archival material, Leanne Pooley recounts Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Mount Everest. By Ben Kenigsberg Bally offers an updated version of the boots that ...

The remains of a mountaineer who attempted to scale Mount Everest 100 years ago have been found by an expedition team led by National Geographic, raising the question of whether Edmund Hilary was ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A 49-year-old Nepalese Sherpa guide who holds the record for the most ...

Hey, welcome back to THE BRYANT PARK PROJECT from NPR News. I'm Alison Stewart, along with my guest host today, Mr. Bill Wolff. BILL WOLFF, host: How do you do? STEWART: I'm doing well. Pashman, get ...

Sir Edmund Hillary epitomised the New Zealand spirit of adventure and he is our inspiration when planning your experience of a lifetime. We pay homage to Sir Edmund Hillary as we explore the South ...

Kancha Sherpa started climbing at 19. Tenzing Norgay helped him join Edmund Hillary’s 1953 Everest expedition as one of the ...

About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can’t blame them for wondering how they missed the ...

** FILE ** Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, is shown at Banepa, Nepal, in this March 12, 1963 file photo. Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered ...