Seventy-two years after Sir Edmund Hillary became the first person to summit Mount Everest, Alex Hillary is carrying on his grandfather's philanthropic legacy.

Seventy-two years after his grandfather Sir Edmund Hillary became the first person ... The Himalaya Trust, which has a local team of Sherpa and Nepali people, raises funds for teacher training ...

French climbers Louis Lachenal and Maurice Herzog were the first mountaineers in the world to summit an 8,000-meter peak - Annapurna I in 1950, three years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ...

It is a scene that has been played out on hilltops across the world over the past 150 years — albeit here, the pair eating the confectionery was Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ... Each weighing 40lb, ...

The Harting Society will hear a talk from Harting resident Rebecca Stephens entitled The Beacon that is Everest when it meets ...

The most famous Kiwi, Edmund Hillary, climbed Mt Everest but never failed to give credit to his sherpa, Tenzing Norgay. This gets reflected in everyday life. Even the famous New Zealand woollens come ...

Edmund Hillary was chosen by destiny to be the allegorical champion ... by devoting much of his time to the welfare and happiness of the Sherpa people who did so much to help him up there – a most ...

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919–11 January 2008), was an explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa (Himalayan mountain guide) Tenzing Norgay ...