Tilman’s Everest south side reconnaissance

April 8, 2015 History bill tilman, charles houston, eric shipton, everest, exploration, himalayas, history of mountaineering, history of nepal, lhotse, michael ward, namche bazaar, nanda devi, nepal, tengboche, trekking 6 Comments

This is part 5 of a series of posts about early tourism in Nepal. For the previous posts see part 1: How Nepal first came to open its doors to tourism, part 2: Bill Tilman: Nepal’s very first trekking tourist,

Namche Bazaar and the start of the Everest trail

April 5, 2014 Expedition dispatches dehydration, digi comms, edita, ian cartwright, lhotse, margaret watroba, mountain flights, namche bazaar, phil crampton, teahouse trekking 8 Comments

We’ve had a lazy rest day today in the Sherpa capital of Namche Bazaar. On a good day this is one of the most spectacularly situated villages anywhere in the world. It lies in a natural bowl on the hillside

Herbert Tichy’s amazing discovery on the first ascent of Cho Oyu

March 27, 2013 Humour 8000m peaks, annapurna, cho oyu, frostbite, herbert tichy, himalayas, history of mountaineering, maurice herzog, mera peak, namche bazaar, nepal, pasang dawa lama, sherpas, tibet 9 Comments

Mountaineering history is full of stories of heroic ascents which have come at a cost: loss of fingers and toes (or worse) due to frostbite. We understand how to treat frostbite injuries much better now, but one method of treatment discovered by a little known Austrian mountaineer in the 1950s, seems to have been neglected by the medical profession, and it’s one that sounds quite appealing.