FILE - A bird flies in the backdrop of Mount Everest, as seen from Namche Bajar, Solukhumbu district, Nepal on May 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File) KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian and a ...

As a little girl, Bianca Adler would sit cross-legged on the floor, flipping through her family’s picture books of Mount ...

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering ...

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Less than 8,000 people have summitted Mt. Everest. One of those very few includes a man with ties to the Capital Region. A ...

On 11 May, 35 years ago, Tim Macartney-Snape stepped onto the summit of Mt Everest for the second time, in doing so, becoming ...

KANCHHA SHERPA. Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to successfully summit Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953. Mt. Everest stands 29,029 ft., ...

One of the climbers wears a prosthetic after losing his leg in Iraq in 2006. — -- Climbing Mount Everest is one of the hardest feats in the world — even for someone in tip-top physical shape. But ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An Indian and a Filipino climber have died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale the world’s highest peak, expedition organizers said Friday.