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 →Between 1814 and 1816 the expanding Gorkhali state fought the British East India Company along the length of the Himalayan…
Read more →In 1743 a young king inherited a small hill state called Gorkha. Twenty-five years later he controlled the Kathmandu Valley and…
Read more →Gorkha is a hill district northwest of Kathmandu. Its name travelled further than almost any other place name in Nepal. This is…
Read more →A sandstone pillar raised by Ashoka in the third century BCE says the Buddha was born in what is now Nepal. Here is what happened…
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 →Until the 1960s the most valuable cargo crossing the Nepal Himalaya was salt. Yak and goat caravans carried it south from the…
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…
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