For most, Aleister Crowley is known as an occultist and poet who, living around the turn of the 20th century, scandalised Victorian society with his talk – and practice – of the dark arts. He arrived at the hill station of Darjeeling in April 1905 for the climax of his climbing career – a wildly ambitious attempt on the world’s …
About a year ago, Priyanka Mohite, 28, would wake up every morning at 4:30am to the sound of her alarm crying out: “Mission 8,586 metres”. The little message was something that she had recorded, the altitude of Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, that Mohite hoped to climb in the spring of 2020. I realised that to climb …
