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...

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...

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...

Wedding on top of Mount Everest

A Nepalese couple have exchanged wedding vows on top of Mount Everest, the first people ever to marry there. They briefly took off their oxygen masks and put on plastic garlands, while the groom symbolically applied More...

Summit Ridge

  Summit Ridge Summit Ridge. South Summit on the right. The summit is not in the picture. The lite cloud (plume) is normal and shows some winds but still marginally climbable. This picture was taken from Kala More...