Jul 26, 2026 8 min read
The Climbing History of Everest, From 1953 to Today
Everest was attempted for more than thirty years before anyone stood on top of it. Here is the full climbing history: the Tibet…
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Everest was attempted for more than thirty years before anyone stood on top of it. Here is the full climbing history: the Tibet…
Read more →Sherpa is an ethnic identity, not a job title. Where the Sherpa people came from, the high valleys they settled, the Buddhist…
Read more →Nepal keeps a few hundred snow leopards above the treeline. Where they live, what they hunt, the blue sheep and red pandas that…
Read more →Nepal holds thousands of glaciers and a growing number of glacial lakes. What the ice is doing, why outburst floods keep…
Read more →Some Nepali mountains have never been climbed, and a few never will be. Machhapuchhre, Khumbila, the untrodden summit of…
Read more →For six weeks each summer, whole villages in Dolpa, Humla and Mugu move up to the alpine pastures to look for a caterpillar with…
Read more →Altitude sickness has almost nothing to do with fitness. What thin air does to the body, the three conditions worth knowing by…
Read more →Three river systems drain almost the whole of Nepal, and all three are older than the mountains they cut through. Sources,…
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