My wife wanted to surprise me with a trek to Everest Base Camp for my 40th birthday and while doing her research came across Advanced adventures (AA).   Adam at EBC at 5364m   She was impressed with their help in booking everything and keeping it as a surprise for me. I was unable to go on the originally planned dates and AA were very flexible in accommodating my numerous date and itinerary change requests. [...]

Prince Harry, the third-in-line to the British throne, is all set to realize his long-held ambition of conquering Mount Everest this year, a report said.   The 27-year-old Prince had dropped a broad hint about scaling the world’s highest mountain in May this year at the end of his trek to the North Pole last year to raise money for ‘Walking with the Wounded’, a charity for wounded soldiers. Harry had, in fact, indicated that [...]

Mima Terenziani (39), an Italian mountaineer who was airlifted from Mt. Langtang Lirung, has died at the Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu on Thursday evening. According to the police, Terenziani was injured after she bogged down in snow during an expedition of the 7234-metre tall mountain. A helicopter had brought her to the hospital at around 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon. But she breathed her last there at 6:33 pm in the evening. Her dead body has [...]

Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal (TAAN) has proposed that the government come up with a single permit for Great Himalayan Trail (GHT) to ease and cut short the processing time. Speaking at a program organized in the capital on Dec 21, TAAN President Mahendra Singh Thapa said, “It will be very easy for us to sell the package of GHT if the government introduces single window policy for different permits,” The 1,700-km trail passes through [...]

The Nepali government is all set to launch the Visit Lumbini Year 2012 on January 14 in a bid to spread Gautam Buddha’s message of peace across the world and develop the Buddha’s birthplace as a peace city and a global Buddhist center. According to the Ministry of Federal Affairs, Constituent Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture, the cabinet had decided to mark 2012 as the Visit Lumbini Year about two months ago. The government will [...]