A trip to India to find work led to a career climbing the world’s highest mountain. By Victor Mather With re-enactments and archival material, Leanne Pooley recounts Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ...

This article is part of Climbing's ongoing Who's Who biographical study of climbing's all-time greats, achievers, and, in the case of Aleister Crowley, most notorious. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary ...

** FILE ** Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, is shown at Banepa, Nepal, in this March 12, 1963 file photo. Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered ...

Tokyo International Airport, Japan, Dec. 10, 1960: Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer, addresses gathered journalists at Tokyo International Airport, Dec. 10, 1960. Sir Hillary is on his way ...

Sir Edmund Hillary’s family will ascend the mountain that made their grandfather a household name in a new documentary being launched in Cannes. Directed by Ben Webster, one of the world’s top ...

From crowded summit attempts and ecological strain, to debates about climber preparedness and the treatment of sherpas, ...

All that talk this week about the demise of Hillary turned out to be misplaced. Hillary Clinton, it seems, is very much alive. Yet Sir Edmund Hillary, the Kiwi beekeeper-turned-mountaneer who ...

Sir Edmund Hillary epitomised the New Zealand spirit of adventure and he is our inspiration when planning your experience of a lifetime. We pay homage to Sir Edmund Hillary as we explore the South ...

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 ...

AP photo - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, is shown at Banepa, Nepal, in this March 12, 1963 file photo. AP photo - New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary makes ...

Hey, welcome back to THE BRYANT PARK PROJECT from NPR News. I'm Alison Stewart, along with my guest host today, Mr. Bill Wolff. BILL WOLFF, host: How do you do? STEWART: I'm doing well. Pashman, get ...