Why Mt Everest deserves respect over self-promotion – The Front Page

From crowded summit attempts and ecological strain, to debates about climber preparedness and the treatment of sherpas, ...
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Edmund Hillary

With re-enactments and archival material, Leanne Pooley recounts Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Mount Everest. By Ben Kenigsberg Bally offers an updated version of the boots that ...

Kanchha Sherpa, last survivor of the 1953 expedition which conquered Everest

Kanchha Sherpa, who has died aged 92, was the last surviving member of the pioneering British expedition to conquer Mount ...

Last Surviving Member Of Pioneering Mount Everest Expedition Dies At 92

Kanchha Sherpa, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Kanchha died ...

Last surviving member of first team to scale Everest dies aged 92

Kanchha Sherpa was 19 when he accompanied the team led by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the summit in 1953.

Kanchha Sherpa: Last link to Everest's first summit

Kanchha Sherpa was the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first to summit the world's highest mountain. Born in 1933, Sherpa was ...