On May 24, Rajesh “Lama Dai” Lama, 35, became the first recorded person to walk from his village, Dudhgaon, in Kathmandu, to the summit of Mount Everest after completing a 57-day, 433-kilometer journey.
Lama began the journey from his village on April 1—April Fools’, which he notes was “not the best day to start,” because “no one believed that I was going to walk.”
He left the warm, humid climate of Kathmandu and slowly made his way to the tallest mountain in the world. As the distance...