A Calgary mountain climber who reached the peak of Mount Everest last week started his journey home from Nepal on Friday.
Andrew Brash, a high school teacher, successfully summited on May 23 in his second attempt to reach the top of the world’s highest mountain.
In 2006, he was 200 metres from the peak when he cut [...]
His picture hangs in the Sherpa museum, above the terraced village of Namche Bazaar, and almost everyone in the Solu-Khumbu valley knows who he is. He is stopped often, sometimes by people just wanting to shake his hand. A Western climber we meet on the trail stops to hug him. She tells us confidently, You [...]
Patrick Horton watches a rising sun lift the curtain on
the highest mountains in the world.
Darjeeling’s narrow streets echo to the baying of dog packs as I
creep out of my hotel at 4am like an absconding guest. Twinkling
stars sit in a cloudless sky, which is just what I need.
Fortunately my driver is on time and, as [...]
Patrick Horton watches a rising sun lift the curtain on
the highest mountains in the world.
Darjeeling’s narrow streets echo to the baying of dog packs as I
creep out of my hotel at 4am like an absconding guest. Twinkling
stars sit in a cloudless sky, which is just what I need.
Fortunately my driver is on time and, as [...]
Patrick Horton watches a rising sun lift the curtain on
the highest mountains in the world.
Darjeeling’s narrow streets echo to the baying of dog packs as I
creep out of my hotel at 4am like an absconding guest. Twinkling
stars sit in a cloudless sky, which is just what I need.
Fortunately my driver is on time and, as [...]
His other great adventuring feat is beating Englishman Sir Vivian Fuchs to the South Pole in what the public regarded as a race, but he will also be known for his devotion to the Sherpa people of Nepal, for whom he led the building of hospitals and schools.
Hillary was born at Tuakau, near Auckland, in [...]
