'Everyone has their Everest that they need to overcome'

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Where Is Phurba Tenjing Sherpa Today? Is Dreamer’s Destination Still In Business?

‘Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake’ is a chilling documentary that brings to the forefront first-person accounts of mountaineers, expedition leaders, tourists, and Katmandu natives during the terrifying 2015 Nepal earthquakes. Apart from documenting the experience through actual videos and pictures, the series interviews several survivors and helps bring their stories to the world. Although Nepal has since fought against th

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Phurba Tenjing Sherpa appointed Goodwill Ambassador of Europe’s Largest National Park

del GRAN SASSO e MONTI della LAGA National Park (Italy), Europe’s one of the largest national park, has announced the world renowned Nepalese mountaineer Phurba Tenjng Sherpa its Goodwill Ambassador. Amidst a program organized by the We Will Rise Foundation, Lawyer Tamasso Navarro, the president of the park handed over the official parchment of ambassadorship to the mountaineer, Phurba Tenjing Sherpa, in the presence of Parbat Gu

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Grandson Tenzing paying Homage to Ang Rita Sherpa

Tenzing Jangbu Sherpa, who just turned 23, accumulated his earnings and climbed Mt Everest to pay homage to his grandfather. Sherpa who has been residing in California, USA with his family works as a motor mechanic while studying. His grandfather, Angrita Sherpa, was a world famous climber popularly known as Snow Leopard. He had climbed Mt. Everest 10 times without the use of an oxygen cylinder. One year after the death of his gra

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Mount Everest: Teacher who set new women's speed record says 'aim high'

"When you aim high, expect high," Tsang Yin Hung, a former teacher from Hong Kong, told reporters in Nepal. It is a phrase she often repeated to her friends before recording the world's fastest ascent of Mount Everest by a woman last Sunday. Ms. Tsang, 45, reached the top of the world's highest mountain from base camp in 25 hours and 50 minutes. That was fast enough to beat the previous record, set by a Nepalese c

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Eight Siblings set Guinness Record scaling Everest

Eight siblings from Rolwaling summited Mt Everest creating a world record with most siblings scaling the mountain, this spring season. Climber Nima Lhamu Sherpa successfully stood atop Mt Everest with two of her siblings on May 12. Along with legendary climbers Pemba Dorjee Sherpa and Nima Gyalzen Sherpa, her brother duo, Nima Lhamu scaled the world's highest peak this season, confirmed liaison officer of the team Sona Sherpa. They have set

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Record-holder climber Phurba Tenzing Sherpa hands over health post building constructed in Beding

KATHMANDU: Renowned climber Phurba Tenzing Sherpa, who has successfully climbed Mt. Everest 14 times, handed over the health post building amidst a ceremony held in Kathmandu. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Mount Everest Summitters Club, Rolwaling Dolakha, Sherpa handed over the building to the villagers under the protection and supervision of the club from now on. Speaking at the handover ceremony, Sherpa said that he had constru

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David Lama Biwak in Rolwaling, 5080m: First ever in Himalaya

PC: Stefan Voitl The record holder climber Phurba Tenjing Sherpa and his friend an Austrian national Josef Einwaller had dreamed to make a shelter for trekkers at an altitude of 5000 meter, which can save their lives in bad weather and promote tourism. The dream came true after they installed “David Lama Biwak” (shelter) at an altitude of 5080 meters across Tashi Lapcha pass, a dangerous pass to cross for the trekkers in Rolwaling r

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Nepal as safe as Europe, says Austrian Josef Einwaller

*Highlights Tourism PC: Highlights Tourism, Nima Gyalzen Sherpa “I will come back and work more,” says 72 years old Austrian Josef as he reclines in the garden lounge of the Shangrila Hotel in Kathmandu. Josef has visited Nepal at least fifty times and he is still interested to visit Nepal in the future. Josef Einwaller does not look like a man who has attained the age of 72 years by now. He was about to return to his home country

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‘Biwak’ and Feratta boost economic activities of Rolwaling Valley: Peluzzi

*Khabarhub PC: Paolo Cocco, Davide Peluzzi, Khabarhub Rolwaling, a valley of mystic, panoramic beauty, loaded with nature’s treasures with hardworking Himalayan sherpas, seems to have got its appeal addressed with the arrival of Biwak and Ferrata in the region. The valley which now is tempting all prospective visitors not to read and listen alone but to come and feel the blessings of nature mixed with the hardship of human life felt the

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