From my Bookshelf: Everest History - fact, fiction and future . . .
But like a soap opera, episodes of fortitude and resilience abound around Everest. Aside from the weighty biography around the 1996 season t
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Jeannette McGill
- Aug 29, 2020
- 4 min
From my bookshelf: Sherpa's and Survivors
The phrase "supporters club" probably doesn't do adequate justice to the role family and Sherpa's play in our mental freedoms, emotional sup
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
From my bookshelf: Mountaineering 101
In all honesty the best way to learn about, and improve in mountaineering is to be right there in the outdoors experiencing the various...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 12, 2020
- 3 min
From my bookshelf: Everest 1996
Every armchair mountaineer has encountered the writings of the tumultuous 1996 Spring season on Everest. The natural maturation from...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
From my bookshelf: South African Reads
Growing up in a South African "seaside lego-land industrial village" (as I saw Port Elizabeth once described in a tourist guide-book);...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 3 min
Mountaineering Moments #15 . . . Katlego Letheo
Mountaineers need to be steadfast and determined, knowing that big goals are multi-year commitments. Katlego appreciates this better than...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments #14 . . . Billi Bierling
Billi parked her bicycle outside my Kathmandu hotel and we crammed into a waiting taxi and headed off into the bumpy frenetic streets of...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments #13 . . . Remy Kloos
It’s hard not to miss the sunflower that accompanies Remy on her expeditions and summits! Part of an exciting wave of upcoming...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments #12 . . . Chris Sherpa
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...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments #11 . . . Saray Khumalo
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...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments #10 . . . Charlene Milner
Last year I assisted with Saray Khumalo’s Summits with a Purpose initiative. In February 2019 the team hosted a celebration of...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 3 min
Mountaineering Moments #9 . . . Squash Falconer
Leading up to my first Himalayan trip in 2011 I started following a few of the female Everest climbers (considerably fewer around 9 years...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 3 min
Mountaineering Moments #8 . . . Dawa Yangzum Sherpa
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...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments #7 . . . Nicky Booyens
Nicky says she isn’t a “big ass mountaineer” but for those in the know; Nix/Turbo-Mamba is one enthusiastic & successful adventurer! She...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 5, 2020
- 3 min
Mountaineering Moments #6 . . . Terra Roam
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...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Mountain Reading: Coffee Table Visual Inspiration
Here are some of my coffee-table book picks that have travelled around the globe with me
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Jeannette McGill
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments #5 . . . Jessica Hepburn
Jessica has swum the English Channel and run the London Marathon to raise awareness for fertility.Now her sights are firmly set on Everest.
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Jeannette McGill
- Jun 23, 2020
- 1 min
Mountaineering Moments #4 . . . Cassie Davies
▶️ 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...
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Jeannette McGill
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments - #3 . . . Sunny Stroeer
Her passion and speciality is high altitude endurance; she holds FKT speed records on Aconcagua, China’s TransQuilian and the Annapurna Circ
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Jeannette McGill
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
Mountaineering Moments - #2 . . . Siv Harstad
▶️ 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...
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