After his history-making summit 73 years ago today, Sir Edmund Hillary purportedly said: “Why did I need a photograph? I knew I'd been there” ...

Every year on May 29, adventure enthusiasts, mountaineers, and nature lovers across the globe come together to celebrate ...

Kami Rita was born in the same Thame village in Solukhumbu district as Tenzing Norgay. Norgay and New Zealander Sir Edmund ...

There is a striking photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary taken in his climbing prime -- jaw set, eyes leveled, the face a massif, relentless -- set in a banner outside National Geographic's Explorers Hall ...

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had become the first climbers to reach the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest. Since then more than 1,000 people have climbed to the peak and the path blazed by ...

WELLINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, together with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, on May 29, 1953 became the first to scale the 29,028 foot (8,848 metre) summit of Mount ...