The government of Nepal held a celebration Monday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 24, 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston stood on the summit of Everest after the first complete ascent of the Southwest ...

In the autumn of 1988, a team of Slovak climbers set out to tackle Everest’s Southwest Face, a steep and unforgiving route first climbed by Chris Bonington’s British team in 1975. That earlier climb ...

Inscribed EVEREST 1953/Hillary & Tenzing on SE Ridge going up to last camp at 28,000 feet/Everest First Ascent 1953/Photo & Print by Alfred Gregory in ink and graphite verso ...