Update on Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja: GPS Signal Shows Possible Signs of Life After Broad Peak Avalanche A new update has brought a ray of hope in the search for legendary Nepali mountaineer Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja following the Broad Peak avalanche.…
The Alpine Club of Pakistan has confirmed, with profound sorrow, the loss of two climbers in the July 30 avalanche on Broad Peak Nadhira Al Harthy of Oman and Pur Bahadur Gurung “Yukta” of Nepal. Nadhira Al Harthy’s body has…
A ten-member international team, including record-breaking mountaineer Nirmal “Nims” Purja, goes silent after an avalanche strikes one of the world’s deadliest 8,000-metre peaks For much of the world, Nirmal “Nims” Purja is the man who does the impossible. He climbed…
At 8,125 meters on Nanga Parbat, the wind was screaming and the air was thin as a whisper. It was the morning of July 3, 2026. Kili Pemba Sherpa stood on the summit, the ninth-highest point on Earth, and did…
June 3, 1950. Two p.m. The wind on Annapurna I never stops. It comes off the ice like a blade, and at 8,091 meters there is barely enough air to keep a man’s mind clear. Maurice Herzog stood there anyway,…
The Film School Student Who Wrote “Everest 2026” on Her Bedroom Whiteboard And Then Went and Did It How Saanika Shah, a 22-year-old actor and dancer from Mumbai, gave up parties, auditions and a normal college life to become one…
For most of her life, Nadhira Al Harthy’s world was made of classrooms, ministry meetings, and paperwork. She was a geography teacher. Then a curriculum developer. Then a government administrator working on citizenship programs at Oman’s Ministry of Education. She…
For almost thirty years, climbers moving along Everest’s Northeast Ridge on the Tibet side passed a small limestone alcove at roughly 8,500 meters. Inside it lay a frozen body, curled on its side, wearing a pair of bright lime-green mountaineering…
Ang Dorje Sherpa does not chase headlines. He does not count his summits out loud or post them on social media. He simply goes back to the mountain, does the work, and brings people home safely. In the spring of…
On the morning of June 24, 2026, an avalanche of snow and rock swept down a slope on K6 in Pakistan’s Karakoram range. It struck at around 5,000 metres, low on the mountain, during the early stages of the ascent.…
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