A mountaineer is aiming to become one of the youngest British climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, to help raise awareness of global environmental and sustainability issues and to commemorate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Matthew Dieumegard

Bonita Norris, the youngest British woman to have climbed Mount Everest, has now also successfully climbed Ama Dablam (6,856m) in the Nepalese Himalaya.Reaching the peak of Ama Dablam is a fantastic achievement for Bonita. She promised herself

A dad of two is planning to enter the record books by scaling the dizzying heights of Mount Everest – from the comparative comfort of Cumbria.Businessmen Nigel Tarn will spend five grueling days conquering the hills of the Lake District logging up

’, James shares his story of; freeze dried food, saving the life of an Italian climber in trouble, Koreans wreaking his Everest base camp, proposing to his girlfriend via satellite phone on the Denali summit and what he’s going to get up to next.“My journey

in the Swedish Arctic so both are extremely well qualified and up to the task of the daily climb.Although it may seem a dream job for keen hillwalkers, a seven-day shift is not far from climbing Everest and there's no option for getting back under the duvet

, Steve Burns and Ian Cartwright.Shiva lies in the area of Lahaul in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.  Remote and not easy to get to, the mountain was first climbed in 1988 by Junko Tabei (the first women to climb Everest) but the side of the mountain

of mountaineering’s elite. To undertake what is widely considered to be one of the last great undone feats in high altitude mountaineering has been described as “foolhardy”, “barmy” and “pie in the sky”.Veteran climber Doug Scott, the first Briton to summit Everest

over the world, most notably in the Himalaya in the 1970s and 1980s, making first ascents of the South Face of Annapurna, Changabang, the South West Face of Everest, the Ogre, Kongur and many other smaller peaks. He is the author of 18 books

attempting the summit of Everest in 1924.Saturday morning: Scottish filmmakers Jim Osborne and Alan Ferrier return to DMFF with films on walking on the Greek island of Tilos and theWest Highland Way. Scottish mountaineer, author and photographer Hamish Brown

against professional photographers." "It's part of why I was sent by [adventure travel company] Jagged Globe to Nepal last month to use in their brochure to spend a month in the Everest Region on their Khumbu Climber trip.  It was an amazing trip and my