A few years after I went blind at the age of 13, I sent away for a Braille book about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Mount Everest. As I read, I imagined with fear and delight the two ...

The Hillary Step, the famous rock barrier located shortly below the summit of Everest, seems to have collapsed, probably due to the terrible earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015. British mountaineer ...

The condition of the rock face has been the source of intense speculation among the climbing community since six-time Everest summiteer Tim Mosedale declared it had crumbled. "The Hillary Step is no ...

Not long after daybreak on May 24, Mark Luscher found himself at the foot of the Hillary Step. Back home in the Oregon Cascades, it would have been a piece of cake. Just a little 60-foot rock climb, ...