A 35-year-old Dutch man suffering from high-altitude sickness died on his way down from Mount Everest’s summit in the first death confirmed this year on the world’s highest mountain, an expedition organizer said Saturday. There were unconfirmed media reports that an Australian climber had also died.
Unfortunately there are no Yeti Mountain Homes (yet) all the way up till Everest Base Camp but Pasang made sure that we had the best possible accommodation in every place.
In the 60 years since the first successful climb atop Mount Everest, an unwanted legacy of piles of trash have been left behind by those who followed. A group of Nepali artists have been working to bring new life to the waste left behind by climbers and transform them into works of art.
Alan Cotton has travelled to the southern hemisphere with Prince Charles. He opened the exhibition, saying, “Most of the paintings ... speak directly to us.”