One of the boots used in the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest "still works" 71 years after the ...

Unlike our Everest Quest expedition, which is approaching the summit from the south side, these first explorers approached from the north. A small group of seasoned travellers - one or two ...

All that remained to be claimed was the "Third Pole," the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on November 6, Mr. Hugh Ruttledge described the Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, of which he was leader. The party left for the 350-mile march ...

To Jimmy Chin, who was leading the expedition when the boot was recovered, finding a camera would be “the Holy Grail of discoveries,” he says. (Interestingly, Chin raced back from Everest ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

Last Thursday a record breaking expedition set off for for Everest. We're talking about the Super Sherpas Expedition, comprised of 6 extremely experienced superb Sherpa mountaineers who are heading to ...

"Any expedition to Everest follows in the shadow of Irvine and Mallory.” A rapidly warming climate has melted deeper layers ...

The photograph shows seven members of the expedition trekking upwards on the north face of Mount Everest. It was taken by Noel Odell, the expedition's photographer, who was the last person to see ...

It shows Mallory leading a team up Everest's North Col. RGS-IBG/Salto-Ulbeek Charles Howard-Bury, the expedition leader who later became an MP, took this picture from the team's Everest base at 22 ...