(MountEverest.net) To be a journalist worth your salt does not come down to witty articles, flashy assignments, big name newspapers or pretty awards. A true reporter provides equal scrutiny to all, no matter personal preference. This can be a difficult task. “Pending,” ruled ExWeb about Andrew Lock’s Shisha Pangma summit when the climber, bound by a contract with Australian media, could not provide summit images for our stats checkers. We had followed Andrew’s climbs ... Read Full Story

A four-part investigative report from Shisha Pangma, two Himalaya legends lost, Antarctica kick-off, a number of interviews with great explorers and spellbinding stories from the seas. We didn’t expect such an eventful November, but here it is. ExplorersWeb fall 2009 Shisha Pangma true summit special report, part 1 Climb until you reach a point where you can’t climb any higher. Mountain tops are that simple. Or are they? Himalayan quests demand major sacrifice, often spanning deca... Read Full Story

I Recommend…. http://www.guidenepal.com/nepal/ MOUNTAIN EXPEDITIONS – MOUNTAINEERING IN NEPAL with Mountain Sherpa Trekking and Expeditions, Sherpa Guides Company. Mountaineering is considered the keystone activity that Nepal offers to the climbers than any country in the world. The eight out of the fourteen 8000m peaks lie in Nepal including Mt. Everest (8000m), the highest peak in the world. Ever since, the country opened its peaks to climbers in 1949, the mountaineering activity has... Read Full Story

Lhasa to Everest Base Camp – Trek with Himalayan Planet. Everest Base camp tour from the Tibet site is one of the most hidden, beautiful and untamed place in the world with its rich culture with hundreds of Monastery and chorten can be seen during your whole trip to Tibet that is starting to emerge from centuries of isolation. Tibet – Mysterious land of Himalaya Tibet is a spiritual land which is a culturally, religiously, ethnically, linguistically and geographically distinct region l... Read Full Story

I Recommend…. http://www.nepaltourstravel.com/ Nepal Travel Tour Packages with Information. Special Nepal Travel and Trekking Packages for 2010. We provides you Special Nepal Travel and Trekking Packages for 2010 including Nepal Travel ,Trekking Tour Information With Tips and Package . Nepal is a unique destination for travel, trekking and tours because of its unbeatable combination of natural beauty and cultural riches. Trek and Tour around Nepal, you will directly experience our cult... Read Full Story

I would like to invite you to watch one of movie of Everest collection… Jerzy Kukuczka: Greatest Polish Alpinist Tribute. Jerzy ‘Jurek’ Kukuczka, the famous Polish climber, has entered mountaineering history as ‘the second man to conquer all 14, 8000ers” after Reinhold Messner, lost on Lhotse in 1989. There have been a lot of rivalries surrounding Everest over the years, some so subtle they went unnoticed, some so blatant they erupted into a full-fledged battle-of-wills at base camp. Few how... Read Full Story

There are so many great websites and blogs out there with tremendous amounts of information on hiking, backpacking, camping, trekking, you name it. My favorites are listed below. Happy web-surfing, and let us know what sites you like to visit! Also, be sure to check out Hiking Lady’s List of Organizations page for a list of hiking, backpacking, and climbing groups! 2Heeldrive This blog has a lot of good info on gear, hiking fitness, and long distance trails including the Pacific Crest Trail ... Read Full Story

I Recommend…. http://www.nepaltourstravel.com/ Nepal Travel Tour Packages with Information. Special Nepal Travel and Trekking Packages for 2010.    We provides you Special Nepal Travel and Trekking Packages for 2010 including Nepal  Travel ,Trekking Tour Information  With Tips and Package . Nepal is a unique destination for travel, trekking and tours because of its unbeatable combination of natural beauty and cultural riches. Trek and Tour around Nepal, you will directly experience our cult... Read Full Story

Mark your calendars!4th to 6th December 2009 in Krakow, Poland. VII KFG – 7th Krakow Mountain Film Festival. The 7th Krakow Mountain Festival (KFG) starts in a 2 weeks (4-6 December 2009). As always, the most important part of the festival are guests and mountain films. We have already written a bit about our guests. Let’s just remind you that among this year’s foreign climbing stars are Patxi Usobiaga – the world master of onsight (the Basque will also conduct climbing workshops,), Tommy Cal... Read Full Story

(MountEverest.net) Among all the incomplete, inaccurate or plainly wrong statements from Shisha Pangma this season, Annelie Pompe and Johanna Öhrn’s story gets the cake: a chain of lies and forged images eventually boiling down to major embarrassment in their homeland Sweden. By at first publicly claiming summit and then trying to defend the central point against all evidence, the women soon attracted the eyes of climbing experts. Aided by local and international mountaineers, one Swedish cl... Read Full Story