Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. We examine the routes on the difficult, rarely climbed Nepalese side of ...

Inks Ranch is both a cattle and exotic game ranch that has been owned by the same family since the 1830s. The owners have ...

Two stranded hikers spent a “cold and wet” night after climbing a canyon to escape a flash flood, Arizona rescuers reported.

Around 40 percent of the government's workforce — nearly three-quarters of a million federal employees — are on unpaid leave ...

Kanchha Sherpa was among the 35 members of the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay ...

Outside spoke to the 92-year-old’s family members about the role he played in helping Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary ...

Last week, SFGATE published a story about illegal and dangerous behavior taking place in Yosemite National Park during the ...

Jim Morrison, 50, completed the historic run on October 15 as a tribute to his late partner, Hilaree Nelson, who died in an ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the team that first conquered Mount Everest, died Thursday at age 92 in Kathmandu, Nepal [1][2]. He was part of the historic 1953 British expedition that ...

The last surviving member of the first mountaineering expedition to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest died in ...