Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the first man to climb the highest point on the earth, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, continues to create records in the space, too. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the ...

Martin Luther King had dreamt that “one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low” for people of colour. That dream is about to come true as a team of ni...

On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa stood on the highest peak on earth wearing specially designed boots made of reindeer leather by the famous Swiss company Bally. Sherpa along with New Zealander ...

Among the book’s long cast of “failed” heroes, Eric Shipton shines the brightest. In 1933, the year in which James Hilton was busy drafting the ridiculous contours of his Shangri-La,...

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Jan Morris, who scooped the Everest conquest in 1953, has died in Wales, aged 94. One of Britain’s finest travel writers, Morris was famous for two events above all in a colourful and varied li...

On Saturday, Edmund Hillary turned 100.Calcutta remembered him with stories and anecdotes of not only as the mountaineer who became the first to climb Mount Everest in 1953, but a person who went on t...

Mountaineers consider the Hillary Step the last hurdle before they make it to the summit. It is more than 50m from the summit.“Above all I think there is something special about Hillary Step, that i...

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An aspiring mountaineer who was in high school when Edmund Hillary became the first to scale Mount Everest received an invitation from Hillary 10 years later to work with him in the Himalayas. Jim Wil...