Victor Asenov battled sleeplessness and exhaustion for nearly two full days and covered the vertical gain equivalent of Mt.

IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to acclimatise their bodies to the deadly thin air on Mount Everest.

Sir George Mallory, remembered for his daring expeditions in the 1920s, was asked ‘Why climb Mt. Everest?’, and replied – ‘Because it’s there’. Mallory, and his climbing partner Andrew ...

Last week we heard from Brian O'Malley, a former East Cobb resident we talked to recently about his upcoming attempt to scale ...

Proof that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, not Sir Edmund Hillary, were the first climbers to reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1924. However, his only lead to break the story — an elusive ...

A comic storytelling show, based on the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition. It follows Mallory on the SS California to India, on a train across to Darjeeling, and on ponies across Tibet. In tow is ...

The sock and boot were found at a lower altitude than Mallory’s remains, on the Central Rongbuk Glacier below the North Face of Mount Everest. “This was a monumental and emotional moment for ...