GENEVA ” Ernest Hofstetter, part of the Swiss team that first traced the route to “The Roof of the World” used by Sir Edmund Hillary to conquer Mount Everest, has died, his son said Friday. He was 95.
A Swiss climber acclaimed for his rapid ascents — including scaling dozens of peaks in the Alps in a little more than two months — died Sunday in a mountaineering accident near Mount Everest in Nepal, ...
p The body of legendary Swiss climber Ueli Steck, who died on Mount Everest, was cremated on Thursday at a Buddhist monastery that lies in the shadow of the worlds highest peak. Steck -- one of the ...