The condition of the rock face has been the source of intense speculation among the climbing community since six-time Everest summiteer Tim Mosedale declared it had crumbled. "The Hillary Step is no ...

Not long after daybreak on May 24, Mark Luscher found himself at the foot of the Hillary Step. Back home in the Oregon Cascades, it would have been a piece of cake. Just a little 60-foot rock climb, ...

Was it Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, or others from an earlier expedition? The 100-year mystery lingers on.

FILE TO GO WITH Nepal-Everest-environment-climbing, FOCUS by Deepesh Shrestha (FILES) In this May 19, 2009 file photograph, unidentified mountaineers walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the ...