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);...

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

In 2004 numerous Nepali men were recruited through KTM agencies for Daoud & Partners to work in a 5 Star hotel in Jordan, but upon...