For many people, trekking in Nepal means successfully reaching Everest Base Camp, completing the Annapurna Circuit or standing amidst the cirque of the Annapurna Sanctuary.  These attractive tea house trails are rightly popular but if you are prepared to step off the beaten track, and sleep under canvas, another world altogether is there to be [...]

27-year-old Chhurim Sherpa of Nepal has set a new Everest record: she climbed from base camp to the summit and back twice in just 11 days. Her experience prior to this extraordinary feat included a successful Mera Peak trek and Island Peak summit attempt. According to her agency, no woman has climbed Everest [...]

Photos of Mt Everest, whether taken from afar across the Tibetan plateau or from the Everest Base Camp on the southern side, exist in their thousands as treks and tours open up this spectacular mountain to visitors from around the world. Not even a hundred years ago, the story was very different: expeditions still [...]

It seems every month there are records being broken on the summit of the world’s highest mountain these days. When questioned as to why he wanted to climb Everest in 1924, British explorer George Mallory famously replied, “because it’s there”; flippant maybe, but with the queue of celebrities and wannabe record-breakers lining up to [...]

I found a photo today of the Base Camp Hotel on the Tibet side of Mount Everest. Check out the image below posted on Webshots by davishongkong. I didn’t realise there was this kind of thing on the Tibet side of Everest.

The last picture I saw of Tibet’s Everest Base Camp, it was all tin shacks [...]