From early attempts to summit Everest by pioneers like George Mallory and Andrew Irvine to the famous 1953 ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, this documentary reveals the extreme challenges, ...

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 ...

Everest is getting safer on paper, but the part nobody warns you about is how one small lapse up there can still erase a life ...

"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 ...

Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest. The remains of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandy Irvine seen with the oxygen cylinders that he helped to manage for the 1924 expedition. Photograph by Royal Geographic ...