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Epic expeditions ranging from the ceiling of the world to the frozen poles are captured in glorious photographs in Light and Shadows, an exhibition on now at the Royal Geographical Society
(CNN) — It’s a fact every schoolchild knows: Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. It’s a truth that feels ancient and inevitable, an unassailable certainty that draws hundreds of climbers to attempt the summit each year — because, in the words of George Mallory, one of the first mountaineers to conquer it, […]
Aberdonian Alexander Kellas: The greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day By Ian R Mitchell © Shutterstock / Vixit Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A century ago (June 5 1921), a man died on a bleak Tibetan plateau. He was on the First, 1921, Expedition aiming to conquer Mount Everest; indeed he was the very first “martyr” to Chomolungma (to give the mountain its proper name). That man was, at that time, r...
news Sherpas, Gurkhas and the ghosts of the Himalaya Kathmandu Post Nepal, Feb. 4 -- The climbing of mountains by Nepalis, usually Sherpas that is, has a feel akin to a dog biting a man-as in the old journalistic aphorism about news being made only when it is the other way round. Not when it is a commonplace. Yet the winter ascent of K2 on 16 January 2021 by a team of 10 Nepalis managed to catch the imagination of people the world over. After the initial rush of news stories was over, the feature items have continued, and it has been uniform praise for the dectet of heroes.