“If the ice is gone, we are done”
Climbing Mt Everest at 8,848.86m is on many people’s bucket list. Even just reaching Base Camp in northeastern Nepal, at 5,364m, is...
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Remembering John Nankervis 1946-2022
When I bring Nank to mind we are always laughing, often uncontrollably. He is crouched pixie-like on a low table in a...
Edinburgh store comes full circle to Nepal
In the heart of Edinburgh near the Church of St John the Evangelist is One World Shop, a modest-looking store that sells goods from all over the...
What next for Reinhold Messner?
In Nepal visit, mountaineering legend ponders life after all the legendary climbs are done
Spring returns to Nepal’s mountaineering
A year to the day after Nepal went into its first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020, climbers are back at Mt...
Peak performance
In November of 2014, Kalpana Maharjan was trudging up to the base camp of Mera Peak at an altitude of 5,250m, when...
Conquering the self
For former drug abuser turned Everest summiteer, it has been a lifelong expedition against addiction
All-Nepali winter first on K2
Nepali high altitude guides used to assist mountaineers from other countries make record-breaking climbs of the world’s highest peaks, but on 16...
Alpine style in the Himalaya
In a week when Mt Everest grew by nearly one metre, we lost Doug Scott who with Dougal Haston was the first to scale...
Alpine style in the Himalaya
In a week when Mt Everest grew by nearly one metre, we lost Doug Scott who with Dougal Haston was the first to scale...
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