The Alpine Club of Pakistan has confirmed that the body of Sohail Sakhi, the Pakistani climber and guide who was lost in the Broad Peak avalanche, has been recovered. A team of local volunteers from Shigar, who had been searching…
There is a photograph of her that people across Oman and beyond kept sharing after she was lost. She is standing in snow, in hijab, against a wall of ice, smiling the way she always smiled. Nobody who knew her…
Dear Kilu Brother, We wish we were writing about your return. We wish we were waiting to write about the moment you walked through the gates of Tribhuvan International Airport, back home in Nepal, after standing on the summit of…
Ten years ago, on the way down from the summit of Cho Oyu, Yang Xianfeng passed a climber he barely recognized. The man’s clothes were grey with a week of dust. His face was unshaven, his eyes fixed somewhere past…
On the summit push of Island Peak in 2023, Sohail Sakhi was the strongest climber on the mountain, and everyone around him knew it. But that day he wasn’t out front. He was in the back, moving at the pace…
Nima Sherpa spent barely five years climbing above 8,000 metres, and in that short time he had already summited five of the world’s highest peaks, built a reputation as one of Elite Expeditions’ most respected climbers, and put his remote…
A San Antonio Pilates instructor who traded a decade-old dream for the high peaks, and found her family among the mountains of Nepal and Pakistan. Those who knew Sarah Mallory Geis describe her the same way, again and again: a…
Mingma David Sherpa is coming home to Nepal carrying a weight he has never carried before. He has flown to Pakistan many times after a climb, but this time he returns without his closest climbing partner, Nirmal “Nims” Purja, and…
In a small house in Kathmandu, a young boy named Yugen waits for his father. He does not fully understand yet why so many people have been coming to the house, or why his mother, Bhim Kumari, has been crying…
Gyaljen “Gyalu” Sherpa (1978–2026) — Sherpa Legend Tribute It was May 2025, high on Kanchenjunga, and Gyalu Sherpa was doing what he had always done — working. While the mountaineering world would later marvel at what he was accomplishing, Gyalu…
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