English actor Tom Hiddleston has been spotted in Queenstown this week as he films a movie playing New Zealand’s greatest ...

English actor Tom Hiddleston has been spotted in Queenstown this week as he films a movie playing New Zealand’s greatest mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.

Nepalese Indian mountaineer Tenzing Norgay played an equally crucial role in the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. Despite this monumental achievement, his contributions — and the broader ...

Tenzing Norgay: This Nepalese-Indian sherpa (guide) and mountaineer scripted history in 1953, along with fellow mountaineer Edmund Hillary when they scaled the world’s highest peak, the 8,848 ...

Tenzing's childhood is a mystery. We do know he was the 11th of 13 children, and most of his brothers and sisters died when he was young. One theory is that he was sold as a kind of servant to a ...

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who along with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, was the first to conquer Mt Everest in 1953, was a Tibetan and not a Nepali, according to a new book. While Hillary and the ...

Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, should have been knighted like others on the historic expedition, his grandson has argued.

Beyond Tenzing’s fame, the economic changes that have taken place in Litang have not had much impact on my nephews’ everyday lives. There are shared bikes now, they say, and food delivery platforms ...

Tenzing Tsondu’s rise to fame happened seemingly by accident. One day, he was an ordinary teenager and herder in his native Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, part of the southwestern province of ...