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…
