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From my Bookshelf: Everest History - fact, fiction and future . . .

Jeannette McGill

Sep 13, 20203 min read

From my Bookshelf: Everest History - fact, fiction and future . . .

But like a soap opera, episodes of fortitude and resilience abound around Everest. Aside from the weighty biography around the 1996 season t

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From my bookshelf: Sherpa's and Survivors

Jeannette McGill

Aug 29, 20204 min read

From my bookshelf: Sherpa's and Survivors

The phrase "supporters club" probably doesn't do adequate justice to the role family and Sherpa's play in our mental freedoms, emotional sup

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Jeannette McGill

Jul 12, 20202 min read

From my bookshelf: Mountaineering 101

In all honesty the best way to learn about, and improve in mountaineering is to be right there in the outdoors experiencing the various...

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Jeannette McGill

Jul 12, 20203 min read

From my bookshelf: Everest 1996

Every armchair mountaineer has encountered the writings of the tumultuous 1996 Spring season on Everest. The natural maturation from...

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Jeannette McGill

Jul 10, 20202 min read

From my bookshelf: South African Reads

Growing up in a South African "seaside lego-land industrial village" (as I saw Port Elizabeth once described in a tourist guide-book);...

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Mountaineering Moments #15 . . . Katlego Letheo

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20203 min read

Mountaineering Moments #15 . . . Katlego Letheo

Mountaineers need to be steadfast and determined, knowing that big goals are multi-year commitments. Katlego appreciates this better than...

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Mountaineering Moments #14 . . . Billi Bierling

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments #14 . . . Billi Bierling

Billi parked her bicycle outside my Kathmandu hotel and we crammed into a waiting taxi and headed off into the bumpy frenetic streets of...

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Mountaineering Moments #13 . . . Remy Kloos

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments #13 . . . Remy Kloos

It’s hard not to miss the sunflower that accompanies Remy on her expeditions and summits! Part of an exciting wave of upcoming...

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Mountaineering Moments #12 . . . Chris Sherpa

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments #12 . . . Chris Sherpa

It was a Jan 2018 weekend away in Sydney. I’d enjoyed a sunny north shore hike and then hurriedly made it into the CBD for “a talk by a...

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Mountaineering Moments #11 . . . Saray Khumalo

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments #11 . . . Saray Khumalo

Saray and I were on Everest at the same time before we actually met. It was 2014. Saray was on the South (Nepalese) side; I was on the...

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Mountaineering Moments #10 . . . Charlene Milner

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments #10 . . . Charlene Milner

Last year I assisted with Saray Khumalo’s Summits with a Purpose initiative. In February 2019 the team hosted a celebration of...

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Mountaineering Moments #9 . . . Squash Falconer

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20203 min read

Mountaineering Moments #9 . . . Squash Falconer

Leading up to my first Himalayan trip in 2011 I started following a few of the female Everest climbers (considerably fewer around 9 years...

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Mountaineering Moments #8 . . . Dawa Yangzum Sherpa

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20203 min read

Mountaineering Moments #8 . . . Dawa Yangzum Sherpa

It had been a dream of mine to see the Himalaya’s with my own eyes. This took until 2011 to achieve, as Peru/Bolivia had been my...

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Mountaineering Moments #7 . . . Nicky Booyens

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments #7 . . . Nicky Booyens

Nicky says she isn’t a “big ass mountaineer” but for those in the know; Nix/Turbo-Mamba is one enthusiastic & successful adventurer! She...

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Mountaineering Moments #6 . . . Terra Roam

Jeannette McGill

Jul 5, 20203 min read

Mountaineering Moments #6 . . . Terra Roam

One windy Saturday in late 2019 I visited an outdoor expo in Melbourne. It was small and suburban. I had taken 4 minutes to scan the room...

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Mountain Reading: Coffee Table Visual Inspiration

Jeannette McGill

Jul 2, 20202 min read

Mountain Reading: Coffee Table Visual Inspiration

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

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Mountaineering Moments #5 . . . Jessica Hepburn

Jeannette McGill

Jun 23, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments #5 . . . Jessica Hepburn

Jessica has swum the English Channel and run the London Marathon to raise awareness for fertility.Now her sights are firmly set on Everest.

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Mountaineering Moments #4 . . . Cassie Davies

Jeannette McGill

Jun 23, 20201 min read

Mountaineering Moments #4 . . . Cassie Davies

▶️ Cassie is one of the people that I’m happy to have met that lives and breathes the outdoors from all it’s glorious angles. After my...

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Mountaineering Moments - #3 . . . Sunny Stroeer

Jeannette McGill

Jun 23, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments - #3 . . . Sunny Stroeer

Her passion and speciality is high altitude endurance; she holds FKT speed records on Aconcagua, China’s TransQuilian and the Annapurna Circ

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Mountaineering Moments - #2 . . . Siv Harstad

Jeannette McGill

Jun 23, 20202 min read

Mountaineering Moments - #2 . . . Siv Harstad

▶️ In 2016 I was volunteering a few weeks of my time working in a tea-house in the Khumbu Valley, Nepal. Siv was passing through on her...

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