The Majestic Summit Mount Everest, known as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Chomolungma in Tibet, stands as the tallest mountain in ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks.

Both were reasons for a helicopter to approach the homes of the Sherpa people, renowned for their ... the more tips we get,” says Tenzing Bhote, a porter from Lukla, home to the region’s ...

People used to climb mountains for ostensibly ... Prominent in the former category is, naturally, Tenzing Norgay, New Zealander Edmund Hillary’s summitting companion on Everest in 1953, whose ...

The second edition of the Tenzing Norgay Sherpa Open Climbing Competition, which started yesterday, has concluded today with semi-final and final rounds, according to event coordinator Serap ...

The Great Himalayan Trail is 1,750km across Nepal and over some of the world's highest trekking passes. Here, we break down the route section by section.

The mountain has long been worshiped and revered by the people from the Himalayan ... when Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, successfully reached the ...

The first successful ascent of Everest was made on May 29, 1953, by New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay. Despite its awe-inspiring ... According to the Himalayan Database, 18 ...

The first successful ascent of Everest was made on May 29, 1953, by New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay ... the Himalayan Database, 18 people died on Mount Everest ...