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...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...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...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...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...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...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...Read More

Alpana Rai is currently studying a Bachelor of Education and has taught at Bashuki Basic School for four years.  She has also participated in REED Teacher Training for the last...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...Read More

Working in partnership: the legacy of Mount Everest 1953 When news of the world’s first successful ascent to the very top of Mount Everest hit the world’s press on the...Read More

The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May...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,...Read More

In February 1956 The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award was established. It would be for boys aged 15-18. It was administrated, and largely first designed by John Hunt, in conjunction with...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...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...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...Read More

The Tenzing Norgay Sherpa Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization based in the USA and voluntarily run by the children of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa. 100% of contributions benefit...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....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...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...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...Read More

Wilf Noyce was a member of the 1953 British team that made the first ascent of Everest. Widely respected for his climbing ability and with an impressive record of difficult...Read More

The Himalayan Trust UK health team first visited Yamphudin in 2015. The very poor, remote mountain villagers there were desperate for our help. They enthusiastically partnered with us for five...Read More

In some parts of Nepal, the practice of chhaupadi still continues to happen, despite being banned by the Supreme Court in 2005. Chhaupadi is when women and girls who are...Read More

Dr Melanie Windridge is a plasma physicist, writer and adventurer who climbed Mount Everest in 2018 while encouraging others to follow in her footsteps. During her expedition, she discovered first-hand...Read More

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what, by oneself, isa done or left undone. – Buddha These inspiring words...Read More

Give a fiver for Ed and help give the gift of education The achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay astounded the world in 1953. Together with, and...Read More

John Hunt’s team had pushed a route to the South Col and at that point, John chose two climbing teams to make the summit attempt. They were Bourdillon and Evans,...Read More

Enhancing opportunities for students and teachers with disabilities in Nepal Quality teaching and access to training is an ongoing challenge in the rural and remote regions of Nepal, and more...Read More