The measurement came first, and it was done with arithmetic rather than boots. In the 1850s, surveyors working through the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India ran their calculations on a distant snow peak catalogued only as Peak XV. The numbers said it was higher than anything else on Earth. Nobody had climbed it. Nobody had...Read More
Let me be straight with you. I’ve walked into Base Camp more times than I can count on both hands, and I still get a knot in my stomach somewhere around Dingboche. That feeling never fully goes away, and if you’re smart, it shouldn’t. Forget what the brochures tell you. This isn’t a “bucket list...Read More
The famous Everest Base Camp trek is what most people think of when they think of the Everest region, but there is so much more to see and do there. Travellers have recently started to find a lot of different things to do on Everest besides long-distance hiking. This has made the Himalayas more accessible...Read More
