But like a soap opera, episodes of fortitude and resilience abound around Everest. Aside from the weighty biography around the 1996 season t

The phrase "supporters club" probably doesn't do adequate justice to the role family and Sherpa's play in our mental freedoms, emotional sup

In all honesty the best way to learn about, and improve in mountaineering is to be right there in the outdoors experiencing the various...

Every armchair mountaineer has encountered the writings of the tumultuous 1996 Spring season on Everest. The natural maturation from...

Growing up in a South African "seaside lego-land industrial village" (as I saw Port Elizabeth once described in a tourist guide-book);...

Mountaineers need to be steadfast and determined, knowing that big goals are multi-year commitments. Katlego appreciates this better than...

Billi parked her bicycle outside my Kathmandu hotel and we crammed into a waiting taxi and headed off into the bumpy frenetic streets of...

It’s hard not to miss the sunflower that accompanies Remy on her expeditions and summits! Part of an exciting wave of upcoming...

It was a Jan 2018 weekend away in Sydney. I’d enjoyed a sunny north shore hike and then hurriedly made it into the CBD for “a talk by a...

Saray and I were on Everest at the same time before we actually met. It was 2014. Saray was on the South (Nepalese) side; I was on the...

Last year I assisted with Saray Khumalo’s Summits with a Purpose initiative. In February 2019 the team hosted a celebration of...

Leading up to my first Himalayan trip in 2011 I started following a few of the female Everest climbers (considerably fewer around 9 years...

It had been a dream of mine to see the Himalaya’s with my own eyes. This took until 2011 to achieve, as Peru/Bolivia had been my...

Nicky says she isn’t a “big ass mountaineer” but for those in the know; Nix/Turbo-Mamba is one enthusiastic & successful adventurer! She...

One windy Saturday in late 2019 I visited an outdoor expo in Melbourne. It was small and suburban. I had taken 4 minutes to scan the room...

Here are some of my coffee-table book picks that have travelled around the globe with me

Jessica has swum the English Channel and run the London Marathon to raise awareness for fertility.Now her sights are firmly set on Everest.

▶️ Cassie is one of the people that I’m happy to have met that lives and breathes the outdoors from all it’s glorious angles. After my...

Her passion and speciality is high altitude endurance; she holds FKT speed records on Aconcagua, China’s TransQuilian and the Annapurna Circ

▶️ In 2016 I was volunteering a few weeks of my time working in a tea-house in the Khumbu Valley, Nepal. Siv was passing through on her...