Edward Michael Grylls: Climbing Mt. Everest changed my life forever Born on June 7, 1974, in the UK, Bear Grylls was introduced to outdoor adventure at a young age by his father, who was a politician and a member of…
Sajid Ali Sadpara: The Mountain’s Chosen Son On November 5, 2000, Sajid Ali Sapdara was born in the beautiful Sadpara valley of Pakistan’s Baltistan area, where huge peaks reach the sky and old glaciers carve their tracks through the mountains.…
Nike Hijab and Everest The Manal Rostom Story When Manal Rostom stood atop Mount Everest on May 16, 2022, she wasn’t just standing on the world’s highest peak she was standing on the shoulders of millions of women who dared…
Tashi & Nungshi Malik : The Twin Mountaineers Who Defied Gravity and Society Far from India’s luminous capital, Dehradun, nestled on the foothills of the Himalayas, lies between the Song River, a tributary of the Ganges to the east, and…
At age 30, sitting behind a desk in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Viridiana Álvarez never imagined she would one day stand atop the world’s highest peaks. With a business administration degree and a master’s in engineering, her life followed a conventional corporate…
In a tiny village called Spital am Pyhrn in Upper Austria, a young girl’s destiny was shaped by the towering peaks that surrounded her home. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, born in 1970, would go on to make history as the first woman…
Few names aroused as much admiration and regard in Russia’s climbing community as Nadezhda “Nadya” Oleneva’s. A passionate climber whose journey began in the peaks of the Bezengi Caucasus during her college years, Oleneva would go on to become one…
In the heart of Turkey’s capital city Ankara, a literature graduate found his calling not in books, but in the peaks of the world’s highest mountains. This is the story of Tunç Fındık, who would become one of the few…
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