Auckland - New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer the world's highest peak Mount Everest, died in hospital in Auckland on Friday ...

In a world where character seems to mean less each day, it's important to step back occasionally to visit those who have it in spades. Unfortunately, many such old-style "heroes" are of advanced ...

A half-century has passed since a New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and ... Early one morning, Sherpa kids bounded past us on the trail, headed for Hillary's pioneering school at Khumjung.

Sir Edmund Hillary (right), son of a commercial beekeeper in Taukau, New Zealand and one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, died Friday at 88. Hillary, with his Sherpa guide Tenzing ...

During a stop in Nepal while on a south Asian goodwill tour in April 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a brief (and reportedly coincidental) meeting with Sir Edmund Hillary ...

The first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary died Friday in his native New Zealand at the age of 88. A beekeeper by trade, Hillary and famed Himalayan climber Tenzing ...