In December 2024, 60 Minutes producer Jacqueline Williams had read an article about Nima Rinji Sherpa, a 19-year-old mountaineer from a family of Sherpas, Nepalese mountain guides who have lived and worked on Mount Everest for generations. The mountain climber had recently become the youngest person to summit the world’s …
Everest, Earth’s highest mountain, needs no introduction. At 29,032 feet, it sits not only at the top of the world, but at the top of countless bucket lists. Forty thousand people trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal every year. This past spring, we joined them – hiking for 10 …
Passage: In memoriam – CBS News Watch CBS News “Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including pioneering mountain climber and documentary filmmaker David Breashears, who brought an Imax camera to the summit of Mount Everest. Be the first to know Get browser notifications …