And there it is—the top of Everest. Only it is different now ... mountaineer with a flair for organisation, Colonel John Hunt. To many, this was a shocking, even treacherous move.

Fifty years ago, on May 29, 1953, two men stood on the summit of Mount Everest ... The leader of this neo-imperial enterprise was Col. John Hunt, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a distinguished ...

More than 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest — the tallest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted ...