Hikers Heaven

10/07/2025

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10/07/2025

🗣️ SIR ALEX FERGUSON ON LIVERPOOL FANS: "I’ve been retired for over a dozen years, but even now, after all these years, Liverpool FC fans still find every excuse and opportunity to talk about me. They call me bacon face, they call me purple nose or whisky nose, but we all know they would have loved to have had a manager like me, and that's a fact."

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24/06/2025

❤️💖👍🤟😅❤️💖

08/06/2025

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Mallory had once been asked why he wanted to climb Everest. His answer was three words that echoed across history: “Because it’s there.”

But for Mallory, it was more than that. It was poetry. It was purpose. It was a yearning to touch something eternal.

Back in England, his children had grown up without him. His wife had grown old waiting for word. And the world moved on, never knowing whether Mallory had stood at the top of the world — or how close he had come.

Now, with his body found some hundreds meters below the summit, the mystery burns brighter, not dimmer. Had he summited and fallen on the way down? Or was the summit forever just beyond reach?
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07/06/2025

The iconic Everest gate rock 🪨

07/06/2025

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4ortunately the mountains kill the body, & only in extreme cases only, but the mountaineers' undying mountaineering spirit remains unscathed forever ❤️

07/06/2025

Unforgivably spirited 🫂🫡🙏
Complete circle reunion 🎆🎇😲

In the summer of 1995, high on the icy flanks of K2, the world’s second-highest and most dangerous mountain, a storm was gathering. And within it stood Alison Hargreaves — a British mountaineer who had already redefined what was possible. Just months earlier, she had stunned the climbing world by summiting Everest solo, without Sherpa support or supplemental oxygen. No women had ever done it before like her.

Now, she was on K2, alone again. A mother of two, she was often criticized not for her risks, but for daring to take them while being a mother. Still, she climbed — not for fame, but because the mountains were a part of her soul.

On August 13, 1995, she reached the summit of K2. But as she descended, the sky turned. A fierce storm tore across the mountain. Winds howled at 160 km/h. Avalanches thundered. Alison was last seen alive below the summit. Then, nothing. She vanished into the storm — her body never found. K2 took her.

Back home in Scotland, a six-year-old boy named Tom Ballard waited. That boy would grow up not just in her shadow, but in her spirit.

Years passed. Tom became a climber — bold, gifted, obsessed with alpine purity, just like his mother. In 2015, he made history by solo-climbing the six great north faces of the Alps in a single winter season.

The mountains were calling him, too.

Then he came to Nanga Parbat in 2019. One of the most lethal peaks in the Himalayas. Tom joined Italian climber Daniele Nardi for a winter ascent via the Mummery Spur — an uncompleted dream. They disappeared in February. Days turned to weeks. Hope faded. On March 9, their bodies were spotted by Spanish climber Alex Txikon and team, high on the face.

Mother and son. Twenty-four years apart. Two souls who lived and died in the thin air. Alison on K2, Tom on Nanga Parbat. The mountains united them in life — and claimed them in death.

But they are not stories of loss alone. They are stories of love, obsession, and a deep, rare kind of freedom — the kind found only above the clouds, where the world falls away and the sky becomes your final horizon.

Photo Showing Alison Hargreaves in October 1988, holding her son Tom Ballard at Black Rock, overlooking the Derbyshire countryside. Courtesy: Phil O Brien.

07/06/2025

🫡🙌🖐️🫡
😇🫂 😇

Before GoPros, Before Instagram, Before hashtags, there was Babu Chhiri Sherpa.

On May 06, 1999, Babu Chhiri Sherpa from Nepal pitched a tent on the summit of Mt Everest (8848.86 m) and stayed 21 hours without using supplementary oxygen, a feat unmatched even today.

Just two years later, the mountain claimed his life. But his quiet strength lives on Everest above the clouds.

His story is a reminder: Sherpas don’t just guide—they shape mountaineering history.

Photo ©: Babu Chhiri Archives.

20/05/2025

𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜

On this day, 20.05.1965; Nawang Gombu Sherpa became first ever human to have climbed Mt Everest (8848.86 m) twice.

Photo ©: Barry Bishop.

13/05/2025

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚙 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚙 😍🥰🤩

On this day, 13.05.1995, British climber Alison Hargreaves became the first-ever woman to have reached the summit of Mt (8848.86 m) solo without bottled oxygen. buff.ly/2Gsclb0

20/01/2025

Mr. President ,
Joe Biden ,
Vice Kamala Harris , may you go to live a privileged life wherever you go 🙏.
May your paths , your manouvers be guided & fruitful 👏 🫡
Honourable handover was an hounuour in itself 🫡
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