In 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary become the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Just under 10 years later, Norgay made his mark in another place of wild beauty — ...

Big wave surfing and mountaineering might seem like different pursuits of nature — one fluid and one solid — but the have ...

There are few sights in the entire world–few iconic horizons–that can make you stop in your tracks and struggle for words.

It’s an extreme adventure playground that is there for the conquering – but increasingly there are distressing stories of overcrowding at the summit, pollution across the ranges and locals who ...

The world's highest mountain is buckling under the weight of its popularity. Thankfully, a few organizations have stepped in ...

Known in Tibet as the “Goddess Mother of the World” and “Goddess of the Sky” in Nepal, Mount Everest seems almost divine as it looks over the snowy landscape below. However, this stoic peak is not a ...

My late mother had kept a magazine featuring Edmund Hillary's climb to the top of Mt Everest because it was a feat that no-one had ever managed before, and it was achieved by a 'mere colonial' – a New ...

From scaling epic peaks to wildlife safaris in the Kenyan desert, add these adrenaline-filled escapes to your ...

Tamara Hinson visits Clevedon on the Severn Estuary's eastern shore. She reveals that the town inspired poets Alfred Tennyson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953, establishing the community's fame ... carrying all their own ...

Alan Shand on his journey to Everest base camp in September ... they did make it to Sir Edmund Hillary’s camp that he used in his 1953 expedition. The people most shocked by the weather were ...