The excitement has been building steadily over the last few weeks and finally the expedition is under way. Earlier this week Jordan Romero, 13, set of from Everest Base Camp, trekking with his family towards the summit. They have safely reached Camp 1.
Despite the hype, Jordan’s attitude and philosophy is impressive, especially for one of [...]

Arriving at Everest Base Camp tomorrow is a charity expedition aiming to raise money for
the support of people with severe learning disablities by cooking.
Yes, that wasn’t a mis-type: a chef is currently moving along the Everest Base Camp Trek
armed with the ingredients of a meal she intends to prepare for her team at an altitude [...]

A team of climbers from Malta are breaking national records in the Khumbu. They are currently undertaking altitude training on the mighty Cho Oyu, the sixth highest of the world’s peaks, ahead of their planned 2010 summit bid of Everest. Advanced base camp at 5700 metres is their current position, as they head up the [...]

This amazing photo was taken by mckaysavage1 and posted on Flickr. Many thanks.
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This is the view from Kala Pattar: the sharp peak of Nuptse and Everest rising mistily behind it.

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This is a video I found showing what we can expect Rosanna and David to be seeing and doing between Day 8 and Day 10 of the Everest Base Camp trek.

This video was posted on Youtube by wwwcelticvideocom. I quite like the narrator’s accent.

When I woke up and looked out of the window I was speechless. I couldn’t see a thing out of the window; the whole of Namche was enveloped in a cloud! For this reason the gallery below shows photos from the day before; our approach to Namche Bazaar.
Today was an acclimatisation day AKA “the rest [...]

After a week, Rosanna and David and all the others on the Childreach trek will be well on their way now. Everest Base Camp Trek routes. The latter stages show the Kala Pattar variation of the Everest trek where you climb to the summit of the neighbouring mountain to overlook Everest base camp. I just [...]

Using his 19th Everest climb as an environmental statement, Apa Sherpa hopes to focus international attention on the damages being done to Mount Everest by mountaineers and global pollution.

A new ‘Seven Peak Challenge’ record has been set! Johnny Strange from California has become the youngest person ever to summit the tallest peaks in each of the world’s seven continents. He capped his record breaking feat on June 8th this year with his ascent of Australia’s Mount Kosciuszko after summiting Mount Everest in May.

This is part of a hilarious episode of Have I got News for You. Brian Blessed talks about the difficulties of going to the toilet when climbing Mount Everest.

Apparently, she has to deal with “hundreds of trekkers that fall ill on the trek to Everest Base Camp”. That could be me!

I found this segment of the Ricky Gervais radio show where they’re talking about Mount Everest.

Apa Sherpa says that he “climbs Everest for fun”

British explorer and endurance icon Sir Ranulph Fiennes has successfully summited Mount Everest on his third attempt.

I found these photographs on Flickr taken during the Everest Base Camp trek by a photographer and trekker called faileaca¡n. Thanks faileacain!

A nice short video here - it does exactly what it says on the . . . vid.
Look at that view!