Happy Everest Day, world
70 years ago today, the first people stood on the summit of Mount Everest. I saw Everest – from a distance – only a couple of weeks ago, first on …
Category: Nepal
Checking in from Namche Bazar
A quick update (from my phone, I’m warning you in advance, so you can excuse typos!) to bring you up to speed on Day 3 of our trip to Lobuche …
Namaste from Kathmandu
Disclaimer: I am writing this on my phone (or is it “from” my phone?) – either way, this is a first for me, since I didn’t bring my iPad or …
Mount Everest has grown
International Mountain Day (today) seems the perfect day to share the breaking news that Mount Everest is now, officially, a whole 86cm higher. Over the years, Nepal and China have …
Nims! Let’s hear for this absolutely amazing man!
For some months now, I have been following the extraordinary saga of the Nepalese climber Nirmal Purja (aka Nims) as he set out to climb the world’s 14 highest peaks …
Another day, another earthquake…poor, poor Nepal
We woke up this morning to the depressing (but almost inevitable news) of a steadily-rising death-toll in Nepal, as well as news from Nar Bahadur that his house was further …