Could famed explorer George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine have conquered Mount Everest nearly three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary? Two British explorers are setting out to probe the mystery in ...

"The question remains, 'Has Mount Everest been climbed?' It must be left unanswered, for there is no direct evidence. But bearing in mind all the circumstances I have set out.... considering their ...

Two British explorers have put George Mallory's 1920s Everest kit to the ultimate test by wearing it up a Himalayan mountain. Identical twins Hugo and Ross Turner, 37, summited Nepal's 21,250–feet ...

New Zealander Rob Hall, at the 28,000-foot mark of Everest's Southeast Ridge in 1994, led Jon Krakauer's team up in 1996. A storm claimed the lives of eight climbers, including Hall's, on that widely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new film, Everest Revisited: 1924–2024, invites viewers to look beyond the headlines to consider what Everest has come to mean, ...

If Irvine and Mallory succeeded, their feat would have come some 29 years before Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary finally reached the top of Everest. At 22, Sandy Irvine—in the back row, far left—was ...