On this date in history: In 1660, Charles II was restored to the English throne. In 1790, Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1914, the ...

Weather records from the 1920s may finally put to rest questions over whether Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay really were the first people to reach the top of Mt Everest. It's one of ...

Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the ...

The 1953 expedition that took Tenzing and Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, to Everest is called the John Hunt Expedition. There were 400 people involved, including 20 Sherpa guides. Tenzing was ...

But most controversial of all was the question of who was truly the first to step atop the summit of Everest—Tenzing or Hillary? For years, people wondered. Even Hillary wrote in his press ...

I need a sherpa.

Reaching heights of around 620 miles (1,000km) these continent-sized “islands” of rock dwarf anything else found on our ...

As the world celebrates the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay — the youngest son of the legendary Sherpa talks about why the ...

NORTHBOROUGH ― In 1953 Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to scale Mount Everest, and Russian dictator Joseph Stalin died.