(CNN)-- Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack.

Sir Edmund Hillary and other Mount Everest pioneers say the world's tallest peak deserves a rest after a half century of more than 1,300 climbers scaling its slopes. Hillary, 83, is in Nepal to ...

Ever since I was invited by Sir Edmund Hillary to take part in the Himalayan ... on a glacier about 10 miles south of Mt. Everest. We lived in a prefabricated hut known as the "Silver Hut" because ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest ... the first confirmed man to summit Everest, Edmund Hillary. "I haven't the faintest idea," Hillary said in an early 2000s interview ...

Maybe you can blame it on Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first humans ...

Edmund Hillary the beekeeper was a big ... the most famous Sherpa of all, summated Mount Everest 50 years ago. “I’ve reveled in great adventures,” Sir Edmund, 83, says from his home in ...

(KWCH) - What’s your Everest? For Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, their proverbial peak wasn’t proverbial or hypothetical at all - they actually set out to climb and conquer Mount Everest.

IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to acclimatise their bodies to the deadly thin air on Mount Everest.  But ...

For Day and Ohio State, the view from the mountaintop of college football was spectacular. No team had ever ascended to a ...

Sir Edmund Hillary's daughter Sarah Hillary is setting out to conquer Everest in her own way. Photo / Amalia Osborne She’s internationally renowned for her work as an art conservator ...

Mt. Everest may get smart solar-powered traffic lights and advisory signs, all linked to the number of climbers and weather ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flagged off an Indian Army-led expedition to Mt. Everest, comprising 34 climbers.