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 [...]
1. Trekking to Everests South Base Camp in Nepal
Trekking to Everests South Base Camp in Nepal is the adventure of a lifetime. Start at Kathmandu before making your way to Lukla and up the Khumbu Valley towards the South Base Camp. In addition to breathtaking snow-capped mountain ranges, youll take in the Khumbu Icefall, Sherpa [...]
The crinkly Christchurch taxi drivers informative commentary on most things Canterbury fell into a giant hole on the trip to Cowles Stadium when I said I was checking out the first-year Australian womens national league franchise.
Never heard of them, mate, he confessed. The majority of the mainstream sports media had already mirrored Rons failure to [...]
Wife Louise and their 16-year-old daughter Belinda, willing participants in Sir Eds dream, died in 1975.
Friend Peter Mulgrew, whose widow June became Sir Eds wife, was nearly killed in Nepal and then there is the sad story of Hillary and his son Peter.
In a country as small as New Zealand, being the child of someone [...]
Wife Louise and their 16-year-old daughter Belinda, willing participants in Sir Eds dream, died in 1975.
Friend Peter Mulgrew, whose widow June became Sir Eds wife, was nearly killed in Nepal and then there is thetroubled relationship betweenHillary and his son Peter.
In a country as small as New Zealand, being the child of someone famous has [...]
Wife Louise and their 16-year-old daughter Belinda, willing participants in Sir Eds dream, died in 1975.
Friend Peter Mulgrew, whose widow June became Sir Eds wife, was nearly killed in Nepal and then there is the sad story of Hillary and his son Peter.
In a country as small as New Zealand, being the child of someone [...]
