Allie Pepper summited Makalu, reaching the highest altitude of any Australian woman without oxygen at 8485m. Now on a mission ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

A critically endangered New Zealand parrot is receiving much needed help. The flightless Kākāpō, though once widespread in ...

Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. His achievement ...

Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. His achievement ...

A meandering street in the picturesque town of Harlech was crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s ...

Kami Rita has been ascending to the peak of Mount Everest for over thirty years. On Tuesday he broke his own record for the ...

Kami Rita Sherpa, 55, reached the summit of the tallest mountain in the world for a record 31st time on Tuesday. He broke his ...

When Wellington's regional council placed the winning bid on a huge block of farmland and native bush in the hills behind ...

Nepal's Kami Rita Sherpa has once again broken his own record by summiting Mount Everest for the 31st time. The 55-year-old ...

Kami Rita Sherpa, first climbed Mount Everest in 1994, and has been returning to the highest peak nearly every year since.

Having reached Everest's summit for the first time, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay shared, with elation and relief, their ...