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

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the ...

Breashears summited Mount Everest five times ... In 1983, Breashears transmitted the first live television pictures from the summit of Everest, according to his website, which also says that ...

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 ...