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The First Man to Step on Mt.Everest this Season – Namgyal Sherpa & His testimony

“My name is Namgyal Sherpa and I am from Khotang. I work with Explore Himalaya and I climbed Everest with the team Project Himalaya as their climbing climbing sherpa. Though I have summitted thrice from the Tibet side, this was the first time I climbed Everest from Nepal side. I feel very happy to have [...]

“I felt very vulnerable at the summit”- Soeren Smidt of 7 Summits On Everest

“It felt like some faraway place… like South Pole “- Søren Smidt of 7 Summits On Everest EH had the opportunity to talk at length with Søren Smidt of 7 Summits, on the 29th of May, about his Everest summit and their (his & Henrik’s plans and future goals). Here we reproduce the excerpt from [...]

EH Talks to Henrik Kristiansen of 7 Summits, Denmark

Henrik of 7 Summits is on a mission to create a world record by scaling the seven highest summits on the seven continents. He has summitted all the highest peaks in 6 continents .Now only Denali(6194m) the highest peak in North-America is left. Just back after summitting Everest along with Soeren, his partner, EH had [...]

“We realized the mountain had changed in the past few years”: Mr.Bo Belvedere Christensen, Leader of KT Baruntse (7129 m) Expedition on Baruntse

On 23rd May’ 08, Explore Himalaya’s in-house writer met with Bo Belvedere Christensen, leader of the Kipling Travels Baruntse Expedition at Hotel Marshyangdi. Mr. Christensen, back in Kathmandu after a successful expedition, looked a bit exhausted but nonetheless happy, as he recounted his team’s wonderful acclimatization climb to both the Mera peaks as well as [...]

A Meeting With Mr.Bo Belvedere Christensen, Leader of the Kipling Travels Baruntse Expedition at EH

A Meeting With Mr.Bo Belvedere Christensen, Leader of the Kipling Travels Baruntse Expedition at EH Mr.Bo Belvedere Christensen leader of the six member Kipling Travels Baruntse Expedition dropped in at Explore Himalaya on 16th April after an expedition briefing at the Ministry of Tourism. Along with him was the sirdar of the expedition Lhakpa Dorje [...]