Category Archives: Everest

EVEREST ANYWHERE 2019

❝#EverestAnywhere challenges you to climb the height of Everest wherever you are. Just add up the ascent of every hill you climb and you’ll be amazed at how quickly the meters add up and you are on your way to … Continue reading

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2019 Himalayan Spring Climbing Season

❝ While winter in the Karakorum ended this weekend, with the retreat of Alex Txikon and his team to Base Camp on K2, spring in the Himalaya has officially begun. Typically, the first sign of spring is not a robin … Continue reading

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EVEREST ANYWHERE 2018

❝#EverestAnywhere challenges you to climb the height of Everest wherever you are. Just add up the ascent of every hill you climb and you’ll be amazed at how quickly the meters add up and you are on your way to … Continue reading

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EVEREST ANYWHERE 2017

❝Ever wondered how high you climb in a year of walking/running? Make 2017 the year you find out.❞ http://www.livefortheoutdoors.com/everestanywhere #wheresyoureverest ‪#‎everestanywhere‬ Whenever you walk or run in the hills you clock up metres of ascent – the vertical distance you … Continue reading

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EVEREST ANYWHERE

❝Ever wondered how high you climb in a year of walking/running? Make 2017 the year you find out.❞ http://www.livefortheoutdoors.com/everestanywhere #wheresyoureverest ‪#‎everestanywhere‬ Whenever you walk or run in the hills you clock up metres of ascent – the vertical distance you … Continue reading

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Base Camp, we have a problem! (Everest 2013)

Everest brawl: climbers fight on famous mountain Police near Mount Everest are investigating reports of a fight on the upper reaches of the world’s highest mountain between two foreign climbers and their Nepalese guides, officials said on Sunday. “We were … Continue reading

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Vale Lincoln Hall

Lincoln Ross Hall, OAM (19 December 1955 – 20 March 2012) was a veteran Australian mountain climber, adventurer, author and philanthropist. Hall was part of the first Australian expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1984, which successfully forged a new … Continue reading

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[TV] The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest

Back in 2004 I read Ghosts of Everest the story of the expedition and search for Mallory & Irvine; Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb, Eric R. Simonson, Larry A. Johnson (1999) Ghosts of … Continue reading

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Everest 2009

Not a hard place to find following yesterdays Puja ceremony as it’s located close to the point where the prayer flags intersect. Flags that now help define our place in the base camp community and with each breeze send prayers … Continue reading

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55th Anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest

It is fifty five years since Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest at 11:30 a.m. local time on May 29, 1953 via the South Col Route. Mount Everest: The historic ascent of 1953 (…) On … Continue reading

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