If traffic jam, inexperienced climbers getting in trouble, littering & trash, deaths – all of this wasn’t enough – the “fake summits” issue has reared it’s ugly head again on Everest. Three mountain climbers claimed to have reached the top...
This so-called superfit climber reaches the top of Everest, at the most “barely”, is super exhausted and has no strength to go down, gets rescued by six Sherpa guides, is severely frost-bitten, gets helicopter evacuated from Camp 2, and gets...
As soon as I typed a few words about my second Everest summit, a notification popped up about 11th death on Everest! It’s turning out to be one of the deadliest seasons in recent history, and I’m sad, angry and...
I am NOT the first #Vegan in the world to climb Everest. That would come as a huge surprise to all you followers of mine. Read on. Because – No Vegan has ever climbed Everest, yet! No Vegan had ever climbed any...
Everytime during last couple of years that I have stood up and told an audience that I am the first Vegan in the world to climb Everest, it’s bitten my conscience big time. I alway ask myself – How can...
We had just come back after summiting Mt Lhotse. Possibly the toughest day of my life. I was following Mingma Tenzi Sherpa all the way to the top. Mingma, the insane rockstar he is, broke trail in knee deep snow, removed close...
I still remember that evening from a few years ago very distinctly. All of us climbers were hanging out in the dining tent. One of the climbers quipped – “Kuntal, you are not fit enough to climb this mountain”. I...
I have now given over 100 talks about my Everest journey to audiences around the globe, and during every single talk of mine I introduce the audience to the people most important to me! One of them is Jost Kobusch....
I still remember that moment distinctly. It was about 11.30 pm in the night at 27,000 feet. It was -25C and eerily calm for Everest. I saw the head-lamp of a climber in front of me that hadn’t moved in...
In last few years one question that I have been repeatedly asked is “What do you eat?” the moment someone comes to know I am a Vegan. I normally don’t post photos of what I eat, but since it’s lunch...
Kuntal A. Joisher is the first Indian Vegan mountaineer, hailing from Mumbai, India. His expeditions to some of the world’s most dangerous mountains are fiercely driven by a profound personal mission as a Vegan champion, Dementia awareness advocate and a Humanitarian.