America doffs its hat to one of its greatest modern outdoorsmen: the first among our countrymen to conquer the two highest peaks in the world ...

Jim Whittaker, the famous Washington mountaineer who was the first American to summit Mount Everest and later became the CEO ...

Allegations of fraud and poisoning in Himalayan tourism have already had an impact on the Mount Everest guiding industry in ...

Jim Whittaker became a national celebrity after his 1963 climb and received the Hubbard Medal from President Kennedy.

The takins are a species native to China. But the pair was born about 100 miles from Chicago at the Potawatomi Zoo in South ...

Whittaker took up climbing as a Boy Scout, and his ascent of the world’s highest mountain turned the shy Seattle man into an ...

As an executive with the outdoor-supply retailer REI and an experienced climber, he conquered Mount Everest in 1963, when ...

Jim Whittaker died Tuesday in Port Townsend. The legendary Washington mountaineer made history in 1963 as the first American ...

At the Lincoln Park Zoo, the pair of takin brothers that have just arrived, 3-year-old Porter and 2-year-old Taiyang, came to ...

Burke has spent decades researching cancer. Now facing a stage IV diagnosis, she’s heading to Mount Everest to study her ...

A Concord native is seeking to become the fastest person to climb Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen.

For the development of new products, Ferrino will draw on the brothers’ decades of mountain experience: more than 3 million ...