François Cazzanelli: He Spent a Decade Trying to Climb One Mountain
Some people find their calling. François Cazzanelli was born into his.
Some time ago, when passengers stepped out of Nalchik Airport in southern Russia, the first thing they saw was a large banner bearing the photograph of a young woman and the words “Queen of the Heights.” The woman was Alina…
Paul Ramsden: The Most Decorated Mountaineer You’ve Never Heard Of In the small ceremony hall in Briançon, France, a 54-year-old(now 56) Yorkshireman stepped forward to accept his fifth Piolet d’Or mountaineering’s equivalent of an Academy Award. Paul Ramsden had become…
Three attempts, countless setbacks, and one impossible dream finally realized , The Man Who Skied Down Everest On September 22, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. Nepal time, Polish mountaineer Andrzej Leszek Bargiel stood atop Mount Everest’s summit at 8,848 meters. What…
Carlos Soria Fontán: Spain’s 86-Year-Old Mountaineer Returns to the Peak That Started It All At an age when most people are content with gentle walks in the park, Carlos Soria Fontán is preparing to climb an 8,163-meter mountain. The 86-year-old…
SherpaLegend Editorial Nepal’s two strongest global signifiers are Everest and Buddha. After the Gen‑Z movement jolted our politics and as the government expands the cabinet, this is precisely the moment to put that identity to work. We don’t need another pitchman…
Babu Chhiri Sherpa : How He Survived 21 Hours on the Everest Summit Where No Human Was Meant to Live In the world of mountaineering, few names command as much respect as Babu Chhiri Sherpa. This remarkable sherpa from Solukhumbu…
The Himalayan glaciers, lifelines for over two billion people are melting at an alarming rate. When the world expects scientists, environmentalists, or journalists to raise this alarm, World Vlog Challenge took a different path. Instead of experts, it turned to…
Wanda Rutkiewicz How the First Woman to Summit K2 and First European Woman to Summit Everest Disappeared Into the Himalayas and After 33 Years She Still Remains Mountaineering’s Greatest Mystery On February 4, 1943, in the Lithuanian town of Plungė,…
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