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

*****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

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

After the Cho Oyu expedition the Everest committee appointed as oxygen controller Peter Lloyd, who had used oxygen on Everest in 1938 (and as oxygen officer for the 1953 expedition, Tom Bourdillon). At the committee’s request, a group of experts was brought together by the M.R.C., under the chairmanship of Sir Brian Matthews, to consider...Read More

Humans are not designed to survive above 8,000 metres (26,246 feet). Yet, despite this indisputable scientific fact, people have managed to climb to the highest point on Earth, the summit of Mount Everest, at a staggering 8,848 metres (29,028 feet). Dr Melanie Windridge, plasma physicist and adventurer, reached the summit of Mount Everest in May...Read More

In 1953, the aim of the Mount Everest Expedition was singularly focused: to place a climber on the summit of the world’s highest mountain. On the 29th of May that year they were successful as Hillary and Tenzing set foot on the virgin summit snows. Little could the Everest Team have imagined that the notoriety...Read More

Women may have come late to the game on Everest, but that was merely a function of culture, nothing to do with ability. Today a total of 678 women have climbed Everest, seven women have climbed it without the aid of supplementary oxygen, and in May this year, 48-year-old Lhakpa Sherpa, climbed it for the...Read More

Please save the date for a very special event from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on 1 June 2023 at Aloft Hotel Kathmandu. Open to the public, we are planning a unique evening of film and discussions with the families of Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Lord Hunt as well as other celebrity Nepali mountaineers....Read More

Ed’s journey to the Summit of Mt Everest was a long one, but a fortunate decision along the way meant that he was positioned to be placed on the Everest Summit expedition. This story begins in 1951 when Ed embarked on the New Zealand Alpine Club Garhwal Himalaya expedition. It was a tough expedition where...Read More