Anja Blacha has taken another step toward her goal of climbing all 14 eight-thousanders without bottled oxygen. According to the expedition operator Imagine Nepal, the 35-year-old German mountaineer reached the summit of the 8,516-meter-high Lhotse today. Anja used the Nepalese operator’s base camp but climbed the world’s fourth-highest mountain without a Sherpa guide. Her summit…
I still remember well the reaction of Everest legend Apa Sherpa. When I predicted in 2013 – on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest – that it was only a matter of time before Apa’s then-record of 21 summit successes on the world’s highest mountain would be broken, the…
In the coming days, the normal route to the summit of Mount Everest will become crowded. Most commercial teams have set out to take advantage of the window of good weather expected in the coming days. It is inevitable that traffic jams will occur at key points along the route. After all, the Nepalese Tourism…
Thanks to a joint effort, the route up to the summit of Mount Everest at 8,849 meters has been secured. This morning local time, a twelve-member Nepalese rope-fixing team led by Mingtemba Sherpa reached the “Roof of the World.” It was the first summit success of this year’s spring season on the world’s highest mountain….
This is the second fatality of this year’s spring season on Mount Everest. According to Nepalese authorities, Nepalese climber Bijaya Ghimire Bishwakarma died Sunday morning in the Khumbu Icefall. The 35-year-old, who worked for the expedition operator Tag Nepal, reportedly fell ill at Camp 1 at 6,100 meters. He then died during the descent through…
The normal route on the Nepalese south side of Mount Everest is secured with ropes up to the South Col at an altitude of just under 8,000 meters. The ten Nepalese climbers responsible for this reached the final camp site on the route to the 8,849-meter-high summit yesterday, Friday, at 7:15 p.m. local time. Today,…
This is the first fatality of this year’s spring season on Mount Everest – even though the accident occurred below base camp. According to Nepalese media reports, Lakpa Dendi Sherpa fell and died last Sunday while hiking from Gorak Shep, the last inhabited settlement in the Everest valley, to base camp. The 51-year-old Nepalese guide…
Nepalese mountain guide Lakpa Sherpa has added another summit success to his collection on Makalu. According to the expedition operator 14 Peaks Expedition, “Makalu Lakpa,” as he is also known, led a group of seven – two clients and five other Sherpas – to the 8,485-meter-high summit today. For Lakpa, it was his ninth ascent…
The Nepalese Ministry of Tourism issued only two climbing permits for Manaslu this spring season. This meant that Ukrainian Alexandr Moroz and Kyrgyz Mark Ablovacky effectively had the 8,163-meter-high mountain in western Nepal all to themselves. Last Tuesday, just 15 days after arriving in Kathmandu, Moroz reached the summit of the eighth-highest mountain on earth…
“The gateway to the Roof of the World is open,” the Nepalese expedition operator 14 Peaks Expedition announced jubilantly in a Facebook post. Other commercial teams on Mount Everest have also confirmed that the route through the Khumbu Icefall up to Camp 2 at 6,400 meters is finally clear. Breakthrough achieved on Sunday In a…
The difficult conditions on Mount Everest have now even prompted the Nepalese government to take action. The Ministry of Tourism authorized the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) to “to mobilize skilled human resources available through its affiliated agencies” to assist the Icefall Doctors in their work on the lower sections of the routes on…
This Saturday marked the first summit day of this year’s spring season on Nepal’s eight-thousanders – and what a day it was. Summit successes were reported from three of these mountain giants, with the majority coming from Annapurna I in the western part of the country. After the four-member rope-fixing team from the operator Elite…
My “School Up” aid project in Nepal is entering its third phase. Thanks to your donations, we completed a new school in the village of Thulosirubari, northeast of Kathmandu, in 2019, and built another school in Rama, in the far west of Nepal, in 2024. Now, through my blog, I’m raising funds for a new…
I wish you all and your loved ones happy and peaceful Easter days. And the “Picasso of the Rhine” 😉 has once again put you an Easter riddle. Which mountain I have conjured on the egg? And these were my Easter riddle pictures so far:
The spring climbing season on Nepal’s highest mountains is slowly but surely gathering pace. According to its own figures, the Nepalese Tourism Departmend issued a total of 114 climbing permits for foreign expedition members in March. Among them were the first 18 permits for Mount Everest. There is great anticipation regarding how many people will…
