In commemoration of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Ascent of Mount Everest, His Majesty sent a message, which was read out by Sue Leyden at the Royal Geographical Society on June 13, 2023. The event witnessed the presence of more than 30 family members of the 1953 expedition, along with ambassadors, members of the mountaineering...Read More

The Himalayan Trust UK supports education and health in the Taplejung district of North Eastern Nepal. Our key aims in the 35 schools we support are to give children the tools they need to further education and better serve the communities in which they live. The method is simple in theory, but challenging in practice...Read More

Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha in the British Army, received a hero’s welcome upon his arrival back in Kathmandu after successfully summiting Mount Everest. He achieved a remarkable feat by becoming the first double above-knee amputee to conquer Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. The streets of Kathmandu were filled with well-wishers as Hari...Read More

By Elise Warwick, great-granddaughter of Alfred Gregory My role as a Collections Unpacking Assistant at the Science Museum Groups National Collections Centre (NCC), involves caring for and safely storing numerous and varied items from throughout history. On joining the team at NCC I was both surprised and fascinated to find that the museum cares for...Read More

*****UPDATE***** We are pleased to announce that Hari made it to the summit on 19th May 2023. See our Instagram announcement >> here. Hari Budha Magar, a double above-the-knee amputee, has climbed to a height of 6,476m on his way to Everest base camp. He reached the summit of Mera Peak after ten days of...Read More

For more than a century, family-owned confectionary company, George Romney Ltd. has been making the delicious snack that has become synonymous with many a mountaineering adventure. Based in the market town of Kendal in the Lake District, the company was responsible for creating Romney’s Kendal Mint Cake – the energy-packed bar made from sugar, glucose,...Read More

Seventy years ago in 1953, Hillary and Tenzing became the first explorers to reach the top of Mount Everest. Exposure to low temperatures and high winds on the summit was – and still can be – extremely difficult to cope with and the team was wearing gear that, by today’s standards would be considered quite...Read More

Delisha’s is a story of generational change created by a simple and powerful action that supporters made a decade ago. Delisha grew up in a village called Nele in the foothills of Mt Everest. Having never gone to school, Delisha’s mother (Gita) was illiterate and as a single parent, she borrowed money just to survive...Read More

Supporting teachers with disability to achieve success in Nepali classrooms Ang Dandi Sherpa was born in Salleri Solukhumbu where he graduated from school. He was keen to undertake tertiary studies, but tragically he became very ill and lost his sight in both eyes. Ang only regained partial sight, but was motivated when he learned that...Read More

Namaste, my name is Ang Tshering Lama. I come from the Solu Khumbu region in the north east of Nepal, from a small village called Phaplu. As many of you may know this is also sometimes referred to as the Everest region for being home to Mount Everest. Until the 1950s, just a few years,...Read More