114 years ago today, Andrew Comyn Irvine – “Sandy” to his friends – was born in Berkenhead, England. At age 22, in 1924, he left England and Oxford for India and Tibet as the youngest and most inexperienced member of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition. As luck would have it – and as his […]

The mountains are mighty, but fragile, and essential to our survival. Join me in urging the United Nations to include mountains in the UNFCCC COP21 climate deal.

A quiet legend of mountaineering, John Evans' put his journals online for the public.

"Ke garne?" It's the classic, at time frustrating, phrase in Nepal, often fatalistic and bothersome. But, in a nation reeling from recent earthquakes, persistent poverty, and government inaction, maybe it's a blessing, too.