Amazing drone photos of the summit of Manaslu help to set the record straight

October 2, 2021 Opinion and advice 8000m peaks, commercial mountaineering, imagine nepal, jackson groves, manaslu, mingma gyalje sherpa, mountain photography, nepal 12 Comments

Amazing drone photos of the summit of Manaslu help to set the record straight

Last week a commercial group from mountaineering operator Imagine Nepal made an historic ascent of 8,163m Manaslu. One of the climbers took some drone photographs that help to set the record straight about Manaslu’s myriad summits.

10 high-altitude mountaineering lookalikes

February 17, 2021 Humour 8000m peaks, doug scott, ed viesturs, hermann buhl, krzysztof wielicki, mingma gyalje sherpa, nirmal purja, phil crampton, reinhold messner, ueli steck 14 Comments

10 high-altitude mountaineering lookalikes

I know some people found my previous post a bit heavy. So to cheer everyone up at the end of a dark season in difficult times, and to prove that this isn’t just another serious climbing blog, here’s something a little more light-hearted.