Category Archives: Meet the Nepali athletes
Aite Tamang
Aite Tamang is a man who loves to run. 2012 has been a great year for him with his first two foreign trips to Hong Kong and Malaysia taking 2nd place in two major events behind two of the world’s
Phudorjee Lamasherpa
He has amazing endurance, is fast and is one to watch for in future. He also makes a good speech at any awards ceremony! Continue reading
Ngima Yangee Sherpa
Ngima* Yanjee started running at school and entered her first race, the Everest Sky race, in 2002 at age 16. She’s from Khumjung, above Namche Bazar in Solukhumbu, commonly known as the Everest region. She loves running! She started running
Dawa Dachhiri Sherpa
Dawa Dachhiri Sherpa is one of Nepal’s most successful athletes ever, with over 100 victories in some of the world’s great trail races. Continue reading
Sudip Rai
I was about to add this post on Sudip, a young runner from the Solukhumbu, and then saw that Moire O’sullivan had beaten me to it here, but then she is better qualified to write about him that I as
Sanjay Pandit
It’s not every day you see in the newspaper that someone is about to run 200 km from Jiri to Kathmandu. It caught my eye, – who was this guy? Then again some time later he was due to run another hilly 161 km from Kathmandu to Gorkha to raise awareness about the effect of climate change on the Himalaya and was in the news again. Continue reading
Hari Rokaya
Hari Rokaya is now 49 and lives in Jumla in Western Nepal. Rather than paraphrase and rehash various articles about Hari, I will post links to short articles and let you soak up the story of Hari Rokaya. Hari Rokaya,
