Sky Documentaries has announced a new documentary, Savage Mountain, which will explore the true story behind Kristin Harila’s ...

About 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. In Everest Dark, famed climber Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an ...

Dean Potter makes for a fascinating documentary subject, but this HBO series follows the same grim arc as every extreme climbing show Benji Wilson has been covering television for The Telegraph since ...

Two of the world's premier mountaineers, Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima of Japan, were reported as missing yesterday on K2. The pair had set off four days ago and were attempting to establish a new ...

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SEATTLE — Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Jim Whittaker, the famous Washington mountaineer who was the first American to summit Mount Everest and later became the CEO of outdoor retailer REI, died Tuesday at his home in Port Townsend, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For 20 minutes of his life, Jim Whittaker was on top of the world. He was the first American to summit Mt. Everest ...

For 20 minutes of his life, Jim Whittaker was on top of the world. He was the first American to summit Mt. Everest, reaching the highest point on Earth on May 1, 1963, with Sherpa Nawang Gombu. “We ...

Handpicked for the role from a roster of nearly 20 expert climbers and scientists, Jim Whittaker pressed through blizzard-force winds and minus-30-degree air to become the first American to summit ...

The late free climber Dean Potter is the focus of a new HBO documentary series that delves into his life and the events that led up to this untimely death. State of play: "The Dark Wizard," which ...