Explorers have traveled to the most hostile regions of the planet because of the human desire to see what lies beyond the ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering team that first reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, has died in Nepal at the age of 92.

Kanchha Sherpa, who has died aged 92, was the last surviving member of the pioneering British expedition to conquer Mount ...

KATHMANDU – Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that first conquered Mount Everest, passed away at the age of 89. He died early on October 17 at his home in Kathmandu ...

Kanchha Sherpa, Dies Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to ...

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 ...

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 Canadian ...

New Zealand mountaineer Peter Hillary talked as part of the Wheeler Opera House’s Changemaker Speaker Series on Friday in Aspen. While he is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his ...