Residents in Ryman Healthcare’s Edmund Hillary village in Auckland have complained about work to fix the main hub building, ...

While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

The last surviving member of the first mountaineering expedition to conquer Mount Everest is unhappy with the current state ...

Beyond Irvine's family, there was another individual who wanted to know the answer to the mystery: the first confirmed man to summit Everest, Edmund Hillary. "I haven't the faintest idea," Hillary ...

On this date in history: In 1660, Charles II was restored to the English throne. In 1790, Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1914, the ...

Reaching heights of around 620 miles (1,000km) these continent-sized “islands” of rock dwarf anything else found on our ...

Ever since I was invited by Sir Edmund Hillary to take part in the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition of 1960-1961 I have had a special interest in the critical factors that allow ...

Cinematographer Michael Dillon's work as an all-terrain filmmaker will be honoured in Melbourne this week as he accepts the ...

I need a sherpa.