New records reflection mark Everest 60th anniversary

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) - Sixty years ago this week two men became the first to stand on the roof of the world in a remarkable feat of endurance and strength of the human spirit.As the May 29 anniversary of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's summit of Mount Everest approaches, hundreds of people from all walks of life, and with varying motivations, are trying to follow in their ...

Nepal commemorates first Everest conquest

In a few days it will be 60 years since Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tensing Norgay became the first people to stand on the top of Mount Everest. Thousands of climbers have since scaled the world's tallest mountain and every year more than 800 people set out to conquer it. However, only up to 600 succeed scaling the almost 9,000 metres-high mountain and more than 230 people have ...

Five climbers feared dead on Nepal mountainside

Officials in Nepal said five missing mountain climbers were likely killed by an avalanche on Mount Kanchenjunga earlier this week. The Nepal tourism ministry said the group went missing while descending the mountain and included climbers from Nepal, Hungary and South Korea. "All our efforts to trace them have failed," Mingma Sherpa, the organizer of the expedition, told the BBC. ...