Everest lies in the Sagamartha National Park in the Himalayas. In this modern era, rubbish on the mountain is not tolerated. It hadn’t always been so, and a little old rubbish is still evident on the mountain. Every expedition that climbs Everest has to pay a $4,000 rubbish deposit to the Park Service. Each team […]
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Very sad news: Ueli Steck, who climbed on Everest in 2012 with High Adventure Expeditions, has been killed in an accident near Camp 2 on Everest. Ueli was one of the greatest mountaineers of his generation and pioneered the idea of the mountaineer being an athlete. We will miss his kindness and his energy.
High Adventure Expeditions works closely with our partners in Nepal: Happy Feet Mountaineering. This past month, their leader and a former climbing partner of Hugo’s, Ngima Dendi Sherpa has been visiting Canada. Dendi was in Vancouver and Nelson BC. He is returning to Kathmandu on Thursday. We wish Dendi safe travels and hope he had […]
The earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25th has caused terrible tragedy to befall a beautiful, historic nation. At the time of writing, news reports are of over 2000 deaths. This number is sure to rise because communication in Nepal is difficult, the cellular networks are down or intermittent. Many buildings are just piles of […]
Yesterday a huge earthquake hit Nepal. It was the strongest earthquake for more than 80 years. Many Nepalis have feared for years that a big quake was coming, their worst fears now confirmed. News organizations are reporting over 2000 fatalities, but that number is sure to rise. Hundreds of buildings have collapsed and many more […]
The Himalayan Times ( a Nepali newspaper) has written an editorial castigating the Nepali government for their bureaucratic failing to provide a clear process for honoring 2014 Everest climbing permits and providing leadership and a “road map” for moving climbing safety and security forward in the Everest region and beyond. The country of Nepal and […]
High Adventure Expeditions has cancelled their 2015 Everest Expedition. Among the reasons for the cancellation High Adventure Expeditions considers the political and social situation surrounding Everest 2015 as too unstable. Climbers invest enormous amounts of personal energy and emotion into planning an Everst climb and uncertainty can quickly undermine this investment. The continued vascillating by […]
A three member Nepali women’s mountaineering team summited K2 yesterday. This was the first ascent of K2 by Nepali women.
This is a link to a news story that aired on Friday April 18th, the day that 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche on Mt Everest. High Adventure Expeditions’s Hugo Searle talks about what happened and what a huge blow this is to the Sherpa community. http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3404869.shtml?cat=1
There has recently been a lot of new stories about changes to Nepal’s rules concerning climbing Everest. I’m here to tell you that (unsuprisingly) the press doesn’t know what they’re talking about. First lets look at cost: Nepal Slashes Everest Fees – screams the headline from one “respectable” magazine (shame on you – National Geographic). […]