At 11:30 am on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest. The Times scooped the news.
Category: Sports
1984 | Jumpman
Co Rentmeester went to Chapel Hill to photograph Michael Jordan, then just selected to the NCAA All-American First Team and was awarded the Naismith and Wooden College Player of the Year awards; in the manner of a ballet dancer, a pose known as a “grand jetés.”
Formula One Fire, 1994
Petrol sprays on to the car of Dutch driver Jos Verstappen during refueling and the Benetton Ford pit erupted into a ball of flames.
The Gladiators
At the end of each season for National Rugby League (NRL) in Australia, the winning […]
Y.A. Tittle (1926-2017)
What a crazy and tumultuous year it was! Many arenas of public life were rocked, […]
David Burnett on Mary Decker’s Fall
Olympics Games have their controversial moments (Personally I am going to be bitching about this […]
Byun Jong-il | Seoul 1988
Last night’s events on the fencing piste and a cascade of NBC’s failures recall a […]
Great Photographic Moments in Olympic History
Since our beginnings, Iconic Photos has covered some of the most memorable photos from different […]
Pele and Bobby Moore
Iconic Photos looks back on one of the greatest moments of soccer and of sportsmanship. […]
Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi
The Giro d’Italia — more famously known as the Giro — is a long distance […]