Nimsdai Foundation and Juniper Fund Explain How Broad Peak Donations Are Being Used
Nimsdai Foundation and The Juniper Fund told Sherpa Legend how donations are reaching the families. Neither process is finished.
Nimsdai Foundation and The Juniper Fund told Sherpa Legend how donations are reaching the families. Neither process is finished.
Editorial The mountain does not know how many followers you have. It does not know your nationality, your wealth, your title, your sponsors or whether the world knows your name. But we humans do. On September 27, an avalanche buried…
At 9:25 p.m. on September 17, nine exhausted climbers stood on the summit ridge of Manaslu, 8,163 meters up, in total darkness the first people to stand there this season. Below them, spread across Base Camp, 493 climbers were waiting…
When the August 26 flood tore through the Trishuli 3A hydropower project, Sanjay Sah sent everyone else out of the control room and stayed behind. Ten days later, a joint Nepal Army–Armed Police Force team pulled him and colleague Kabir…
The flood did not only sweep away roads, bridges and homes in northern Nepal. It separated people from the outside world. Foreign tourists were in the affected region. So were the Nepali guides, porters and support workers who travelled with…
Days before his death, Nirmal Purja wrote directly to the mountain he was preparing to climb: On 30 July 2026, an avalanche swept through his expedition on Broad Peak in Pakistan. Nims and the other members of the team lost…
How a farm boy from southern Poland closed a 13-year project by skiing the Killer Mountain, top to bottom, without oxygen and without stopping
Manaslu turns 70 this year. In the seven decades since the world’s eighth-highest peak was first climbed, 3,643 people have stood on its summit. This autumn climbing season alone is expected to add more than 300 new summiteers to the…
Mingma David Sherpa, Nirmal “Nims Dai” Purja’s longtime climbing partner, close friend, and co-founder of Elite Exped, has shared a deeply personal tribute following Nims Dai’s death on Broad Peak. For Mingma David, Nims was far more than a climbing…
They left a coffee tin on the summit. It was the only monument they had time to build. Someone had carried it up through three camps and a night of rock climbing in the dark, and now, on the Central…
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