since Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay’s 1953 expedition is widely accepted as the first time the summit of Everest was reached.

This is the first rock a climber touches on the route up Everest. It becomes very obvious when one has reached this point in the climb—one's crampons hit hard rock. The top of the yellow band is ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...