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 [...]
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 [...]
Although his ice-axe lay on his coffin and his many medals and decorations were on display alongside the casket, Hillarys funeral did not focus on his exploits on Mount Everest and in Antarctica which made him an international hero. Instead, family members and other speakers marked his death by praising his personal qualities of determination, [...]
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 [...]
The tall, gangly beekeeper seized world headlines when he and Tenzing Norgay, on May 29, 1953, became the first to scale the summit of Mount Everest.
He was 88 when he died.
Sir Ed as all New Zealanders knew him - never forgot that he reached the summit with Tenzing and he devoted the rest of [...]
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 [...]
