In spring 2025, Freshta Ibrahimi aims to make history—by becoming the first Afghan woman to summit the highest peak in the ...

News of her 10th summit was broken by her brother Mingma ... In 2003, she became the first woman to scale Everest three times - and more records followed. During her 2003 climb, she was joined ...

New Delhi: Bachendri Pal, born on May 24, 1954, in Nakuri, Uttarakhand, India, is an iconic mountaineer and the first Indian woman to ... by reaching the summit of Mount Everest, the world's ...

The first-ever Bangladeshi all-women winter expedition to Nepal's Langtang region concluded on January 11, in what is seen as ...

A polar researcher turned National Geographic photographer, Bishop was on the first U.S. expedition to summit Everest. (See the story from the October 1963 issue of National Geographic.) ...

Beyond Irvine's family, there was another individual who wanted to know the answer to the mystery: the first confirmed man to summit Everest, Edmund Hillary. "I haven't the faintest idea," Hillary ...

Everest. By paying $65,000 or so, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple ... But since then, it's become the first Englishman, the first American, the first woman, the first chap to ...

A sherpa guide saved the life of a climber struggling on Mount Everest's "death zone" in a rare high altitude rescue. The first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest talks about her achievement ...

As any true adventurer knows, not every night can be spent under the stars in a national park, or clinging to the side of a big wall in a portaledge. Some night ...

A woman has explained the surprising reason why 'most people die on Everest' and it's something which a lot of people may overlook.

From here, climbers have a stupendous view of the upper 8,000 feet of Everest—the first ... The climbers' first small victory of the day, the South Summit is a ping pong table-size dome of ...