Education in Nepal
Education in Nepal Modern education in Nepal began with the establishment of the first school in 1853; this school was only for the members of the ruling families and their courtiers. Schooling for the general people More...
David Breashears
David Breashears is an accomplished filmmaker, adventurer, author, mountaineer, and professional speaker. Since 1978, he has combined his skills in climbing and filmmaking to complete more than forty film projects. In More...
City that Paradise of Fine arts Patan
The city lies about 5 km from the Kathmandu. It is a city of Budhist monuments, Hindu temples and fine wood carvings. Lalitpur is the another name of this city which ‘means the city of beauty’. The city More...
Namche Bazaar (नाम्चे बजार)
(नाम्चे बजार−also Nemche Bazaar or Namche Bazar) is a village and Village Development Committee (Namche) in Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal. It is located More...
Ang Tshering Sherpa
Ang Tshering Sherpa My name is Ang Tshering Sherpa and I was born on 15 November 1953 in a picturesque Himalayan village of Khumjung (3790m) in the Solu-Khumbu district. It is one of the famous Sherpa villages More...
Chhewang Nima Sherpa 19 Time Everest Submitter
On 23 October, Chhewang Nima Sherpa (pic) went missing following an avalanche on Baruntse (7129m), a neighbour to Lhotse and Everest. He had been fixing ropes below the summit on the north face of the mountain for More...
Saving a friend's life on Everest
Jun 3, 2005 10: 50 EST A fast response, common sense and unabated support from skilled team-mates saved Hirotaka’s life. Ralf Dujmovits, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Hirotaka Takeuchi were on their BC-to-summit More...
Temba Tsheri
Everest has many stories to tell and one of these is the account ofTemba Tsheri. Unlike those who had climbed the slopes of Everest before him, Temba was the first to attempt a successful ascent ofEverest at the More...
Nawang Gombu
Over the years a large number of Sherpas have been instrumental helping others to achieve successful ascents of the mighty Mount Everest. One such person is Nawang Gombu, a Sherpa mountaineer born in 1936 in the More...
First Nepalese woman summit Mount Everest
On 29 May 1953, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary made history by being the first ones to scale Mt. Everest, the world’s highest mountain which stands at 884,8 meters above sea level in Nepal. More...
Ang Rita Sherpa
The association of most of the Sherpas with the mountain begins from their childhood. I was orphaned in my teens which compelled me to accept mountaineering as a profession to support my family and supplement my More...
Youngest teenager climbs Mt.Everest at the age of thirteen
Yes he did it, a 13-year-old American boy, his name Jordan Romero, who climbed Africa’s Kilimanjaro when he was nine, has become the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest at a tender age of thirteen. Well More...