Sir David Attenborough explores the scientific research behind the legend of a massive ape, known as "Bigfoot," the "Yeti," or the "Abominable Snowman." Drawing on fossil evidence, he unveils the ...

Scaling the world’s highest peak is all in a day’s work for 54-year-old Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa, a man breezily modest about having set foot on the summit of Everest more times ...

Cheering crowds greeted an 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer as a hero when he returned home after becoming the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks. Nima Rinji Sherpa ...

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On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Here is a quiz on the expedition ...

Interview with British mountaineer Jon Griffith on expedition in Nepal where Sherpa Tenji will attempt the famous Everest - Lhotse traverse without supplementary oxygen. Griffith is coordinating the ...

Conrad Anker, an American mountaineer and a close companion of Nepal’s mountain tourism, has been honored with the Kumar ...