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

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

On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest during a British expedition led by John Hunt. It was a stunning achievement that inspired people around the globe. Fifty-nine years later in 2012, I had the good fortune of being invited to join the organising committee for a series...Read More

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. Over half the population lives on $3 a day or less and many families often need to walk for hours to reach basic services like safe water, health care, and schools. How it started? It all began when Sir Edmund Hillary asked a Sherpa if...Read More

An exemplar of Edmund Hillary’s vision Ang Jangbu was born in 1957 in a tiny remote village in the Himalayas. One of 10 brothers and sisters, he spent his early years as a shepherd boy, living in great poverty, constantly hungry and cold, spending long hours alone on the mountainside.Read More

In the year following the 1953 climb, George Lowe was visiting the Nepalese village of Khumjung with Sir Edmund Hillary when a young Sherpa presented their group with a petition. It read, “We have eyes but we cannot see; we have ears but we cannot hear. We know there is a big world out there,...Read More