thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月17日 00時17分

Photo by @gordonwiltsie

This week a veteran team of Western and Sherpa mountaineers will assemble near Mount Everest in Nepal to teach the 11th session of the Khumbu Mountaineering School, a project that imparts essential climbing knowledge to lesser-experienced Sherpas and other Nepalis who earn their livings (and risk their lives) supporting foreign expeditions the length of the Himalaya.
This idea was first conceived by the late Alex Lowe (pictured above,) who, at the time of his tragic death in a Himalayan avalanche in 1999, was considered to be the most talented - and toughest - mountaineer of our generation . To keep his memory alive, his wife Jenni, climber partner Conrad Anker, other friends and companies such as The North Face set up the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation that has carried on his irrepressible energy by raising funds to create not only the climbing school but also a visitor center/museum/library that is nearing completion in the village of Phortse.
Thinking about the climbing school always brings back wonderful memories of a friend who helped lead the way up the two hardest climbs of my own life, which I photographed in #Antarctica and on Canada's Baffin Island for National Geographic Magazine. On yet another #expedition pictured here, he is free-soloing an overhang perhaps a thousand feet above a rarely-visited Antarctic glacier, perfectly in tune with the rock and his abilities. He was so strong, in fact, that he could easily follow up a day like this with doing hundreds of additional pull-ups in base camp.
I wish that he could be teaching those classes himself.
@khumbuclimbingcenter @conradclimber #adventure #climbing @thephotosociety #alexlowe

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