Billi Bierling – Journalist and Climber

I am lying in my sleeping bag and my body is aching all over. I am tired. It has been four days since I reached the summit of Nuptse, or rather the highest rocky point of this mountain, as  the last 20 metres or so were  a pile of snow, which was utterly unclimbable. “It [...]

Just got an SMS from Billi saying: “We summited 16th May. It was hard but amazing. Thanks to the Sherpas.” – Robot -

I am sitting in my tent reflecting on what has been quite an eventful morning. First of all I would like to talk about our Sherpas, four of which fixed the rope to Nuptse to about 200m below the summit on Thursday. When Russell talked to them in the evening they sounded very tired. However, [...]

This is just another quick update to let you know that the Nuptse team has been at Camp 2 at 6,400m for the past three days to acclimatise and maybe make use of a weather window to attempt for the summit of this beautiful but humbling mountain. our amazing Sherpa team as well as our [...]

This is just a quick update from Gorak Shep, where I have just dropped down from Base Camp to do some emailing. I have completely recovered and I am now back at the Himex camp waiting for the route to Nuptse to be opened. Life has been quite calm up there with all the Himex [...]