British surveyor Michael Spender created the first detailed 3D map of Everest’s North Face in 1935. Spender's outward ...

In 2006, an Australian climber was left behind on Mt. Everest after being assumed dead, but he was very much alive, and ...

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 ...

When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Everest on May 29th 1953, Kanchha Sherpa, then 19, was at the camp below. Two other Sherpas were with him, picked like him because they could ...

Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to summit Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953. Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, stands ...

Edmund Hillary once said that the Sherpa were the most researched, dissected and blood-taken ethnic group in the world. Living below the highest mountains in the world, the trans-Himalayan traders ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition to reach the top of Mount Everest, died on Thursday, October 16. Kanchha Sherpa was 92. Outside interviewed Kanchha Sherpa’s son, ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

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Mountaineers have skied other routes on Mount Everest, but never the Hornbein Couloir, a steep, narrow gully on the North Face. Luca Galuzzi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.5 American ...