In 1982, a small team set out to tackle the unclimbed East-Northeast Ridge of Everest. During the attempt, Pete Boardman and ...

In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a challenge that ...

The Philippines marked a milestone in Everest history in 2025 with three successful summits. But the season was also shadowed ...

The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were less than a week away ...

The end of May also marks the end of the popular spring mountaineering season, when monsoon weather puts climbs on hold.

Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to ...

The Vaughn family’s homestead, built in 1833, was among Madison County’s oldest and linked to early settlers.

On 29 May 1953, Tenzing and Hillary "defied insurmountable odds" to become the first mountaineers confirmed to have reached the summit. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, pictured at their camp ...

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay’s grandson says his grandfather should have got a knighthood and not an inferior honour to Sir Edmund Hillary. In a report in The Guardian, Tashi Tenzing, who has climbed ...