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…
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…
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…
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,…
Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa: At 25, He Summited Everest Four Times Without Oxygen, Challenging Western Notions of Mountaineering Then Came the Avalanche In the thin air above 26,000 feet on Mount Everest, where every breath is a struggle and every step…
Donald Lynn Cash : 40 Years of Dreams, 40 Minutes of Waiting, The Man Who Died Standing in Line on Everest Don Cash spent 40 years reading about Everest and preparing for the challenge. When he finally got his chance,…
The Nepali Star Just Three Summits Away from Making History Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United Kingdom, Deeya Pun never imagined her life would span two vastly different worlds the glamorous realm of Nepali cinema and the…
Afsaneh Hesamifard: Iranian Mountaineering Legend Who Broke Barriers for Iranian Women in Extreme Sports In the small city of Bojnord, North Khorasan, Iran, a legend was born on December 26, 1976. Afsaneh Hesamifard, whose name would later call across the…
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