Episode 5 ~ Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader
In episode 5, I talk to ex-SAS mountain leader, charity founder, and former Gurkha soldier, Krish Thapa about adventure philosophy.
Born in a village near AnnaPurna, Nepal and joining the British Army at a young age, Krish has led and summited expeditions to some of the highest and most challenging peaks in the world, notably: Everest, Dhaulagiri; Makalu; Manaslu and K2!
Founding his own guiding company, HST adventures, and the Sustainable Himalayan Foundation, a not-for-profit that supports and promotes sustainable mountain tourism, leads female empowerment initiatives and works to improve the lives of mountain communities. Krish now focuses his effort on helping veteran amputees get into mountaineering and has successfully led them to the summits of Kilimanjaro, Mera Peak, Mount Kenya and Mont Blanc – with Elbrus and Aconcagua already pencilled in for the not-to-distant future.
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00:00:09 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hi, welcome to the Tales of Adventure podcast. I'm Chris, your host, and every month I'll be interviewing inspiring adventurers by overcoming hardship, taking risk, and doing it differently.
00:00:20 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The podcast complements the live speaker series, which you hold in London every month and that aims to document the learning that's got these standout individuals to where they are now. Hope you enjoy this.
00:00:43 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Krishna, welcome to the Tales Adventure podcast. No, I say sorry. How how are you?
00:00:50 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, I'm absolutely very, very fine, Chris. Thank you. Thank you very much for having me here on the tale of adventure and very excited.
00:01:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Mate. Fantastic. No, no problems. I I I first started hearing about you through Justin Davis made to mine. Who's currently the rifles he he started to signpost me towards your your company HST adventures.
00:01:20 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
But before we go down, before we go down that rabbit hole, mate, tell us a bit about your background, if that's OK.
00:01:26 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Obviously, Namaste and good afternoon or good morning everyone. This is Krishna Thapa, obviously born in the remote village in the Annapurna region of Nepal. Joined the Gurkhas.
00:01:46 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
25 years ago and the over the year, you know, served as Gurkhas and very high tempo environment.
00:01:55 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And yeah, during uh, during the course of the Sorbing, obviously I think we we do whatever we do around the world and do a lot of adventure and then you know basically understanding and grow ourselves. Yeah. And then since then.
00:02:16 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Last 15 years, I was very fortunate enough.
00:02:20 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
To most, you know, involving and climbing and exhibition through the work and some of them, my highlighted moment are obviously climbing and leading the our Gurkha 200 years anniversary in Everest where.
00:02:40 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Where 1313 of us serving guys submit the Everest on 2017, which is basically the Guinness World Record in the biggest.
00:02:52 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Group and.
00:02:55 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Wow, mate, let let me. So I was gonna jump in a second because I I know you. You'll do a disservice to your yourself if I don't read out some of your your key highlights here, mate. What makes you such a an incredible Well pod podcast guest is your.
00:03:14 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Your background, I mean, you're born near Annapurna. You've joined the Gurkhas and also you've done. You've LED expeditions to Everest, K2.
00:03:26 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Delivery Makalu and Manaslu. I mean mate, that is absolutely fantastic. Which which one of those was your favourite or which one stands out the most?
00:03:38 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, it's very. I think every like we I think like Chris you know and then I think each mountain and each moment is.
00:03:46 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Ready.
00:03:47 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, interesting and insignificant. But however, to witness compare all of them to me is thou agree, is the 8167 metre. I think 7 highest mountain in the world. The only reason that is very significant for me.
00:04:08 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Was I I think at the moment I don't quote me, but I am the first guy submit and then he ski down the 8000 metre peak on that map.
00:04:20 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You you say you.
00:04:21 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Skip down there.
00:04:22 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, I did it.
00:04:23 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, hoofing.
00:04:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, sorry, let don't let me interrupt you.
00:04:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Well, so so daliri is the is the standout for you amongst Everest and K2 and the Manaslu.
00:04:33 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah.
00:04:41 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's A to be honest. Equally, you know, Everest and then maybe in terms of technically and you know and then the challenging is definitely the K2. But you know just the double agree sign out little bit for me it's personally.
00:04:41 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Certainly one that says you must move.
00:05:02 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
In my personal level, is obviously submitting an isky down, it's.
00:05:05 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
The you know, overall sensation of the achievement was magnificent.
00:05:11
Yeah.
00:05:14 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Wow, mate, it's you're you're talking to somebody at the moment. Who? Who had a fall on the Matterhorn last year and I've I've. I think I've burned my bridges with mountains for, for, for probably for this year actually. With with the coronavirus and having had some what 6 operations to.
00:05:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Repair my leg after a a pretty horrendous fracture on the on Matterhorn, but even just hearing, you know your your stories about dialogue.
00:05:44 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And Eris and K2 is already making me want to go back.
00:05:51 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, I'm. I'm, I'm sure. I'm sure it's just a matter of time, Chris. I'm sure you'll be back in the mountain soon.
00:05:59 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes, definitely, definitely. And so mate, and I'm just going to again, you've you've got such an incredible like CV of of, you know, mountaineering, adventure and stuff you so you you've LED 3 double amputees up Mont Blanc.
00:06:19 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
As well as 2 double amputees up Kilimanjaro and Mira Peak and Mount Kenya mate. I don't know where to start, but tell us. Tell us something about those. Cause those are incredible.
00:06:32 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, I think I think, Chris, I think is is is in, in a way or reward and gratitude in a where I a lot of time focused for our active men and in our belonging sense of belonging in a human.
00:06:47 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I think, to be honest, climbing with the Justin, Harry and Estefan, who obviously which are all veteran and you know acts service personnel, I think climbing with them in Mount Blanc, three of them submitting you know it's obviously it's another very.
00:07:07 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Significant moment for me and the IT is it is the, you know, like the feeling I think feeling I got from the sense of achievement and basically sense of belonging.
00:07:22 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I think especially what am what makes me you know you know very focused on this kind of you know tracking exhibition or climbing is I think what I found myself is you know when we actually serving in the armed forces we have got these.
00:07:41 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
So many sense of belonging, so many reason to stay, you know, get up every morning and go to the work. Oregon, go to the office and walking with the our buddy and brothers. I think one of the thing for our especially for the veteran community. Once we left the service.
00:08:00 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And and I think that we we need to have some sort of beacon or you know like light or some hope or belonging within our community because as you as you know Chris, I think when we in the service we are focusing on so much high tempo, high focused.
00:08:13
Yeah.
00:08:20 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Of our mission. And then once we come out, it's it's a sense of we are kind of no one's there to guide you. No one there to you know so or the give you challenge for for our you know.
00:08:33 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Emotion in healthy body and mind, I think those I think what I found especially you know especially working with this our our brothers in in the veteran and especially you know like suffering from the either body emotion or you know some set of some set of foam is to.
00:08:36
Yeah.
00:08:54 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, I think sharing our experience, whatever the experience, you know both emotion and body or mind and focusing and achieving some unbelievable, you know guys working is is incredible.
00:09:09 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah, totally. Well, I was. I was just thinking then as well that we we grabbed coffee in London, uh, sometime last year, didn't we? And it was actually made to a joint mate of ours, Tom in who's next RAF Regiment Guy who know who now does filmmaking.
00:09:20 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yes.
00:09:30 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And you know that that and he and he said.
00:09:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Chris, you need to meet Chris because he's got some incredible mountain stories. And yeah, we did. We sat there in somewhere in central London and we and drink coffee and chat about months.
00:09:43 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah. Yes, we did, yeah.
00:09:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
But I would be like.
00:09:47 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, I mean, you raise, you raise a really good point as well in that it's not just about mountaineering as well because the, the, the veterans community, especially one that we're both part of needs that that.
00:10:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Kind of sense of achievement or that sense of purpose post post service, don't we? And you know how? How does how does that kind of influence you with with taking amputees up mountains, do you think?
00:10:17 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah. I think one of the very impact for me is Greece. Obviously after you know, like born in the Himalayas, you know pretty much bare minimum survival state of you know of kind of our needs. You know all we have is the you know whatever that we have in the mountain.
00:10:37 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And you know, being a being a Nepalese boy joining the Gurkhas is the one of the, you know, biggest dream. You know, what can we?
00:10:47 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Acts more than joining the British Army, you know, and then that gives pretty much, you know, a lot of prospective of life what we can achieve and what we have had achieved in our life and still I think one week after the 25 year service you know and when I look back my own reflection.
00:11:07 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Where I came from, the way I grown up, my culture, Buddhism culture.
00:11:12 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And then coming in the, you know UK serve serve for the 25 years and learn so many valuable lesson and grow ourselves. I think the most important thing for us is to be a human, be be a normal human, an understanding ourselves.
00:11:32 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And once you understand our once you understand ourselves, then what?
00:11:36 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Were the, you know, like lesson we have learned and if we can inspire and if we can change the state of mind someone else, I think that's probably the biggest gratitude to me is living, living and being a human and and absolutely.
00:11:57 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Thing you know, some each in each individual have a certain energy and power and knowledge and story to share, and as long as we are humble enough and then share our experience to.
00:12:12 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Not to teach anyone else but to help and to grow, to achieve their mission. So some direction. I think this is what made me, you know, realise to how can I, you know, or our experience sharing not only my and I also learning so much from them. You know being a.
00:12:32 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:12:32 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Absolutely, isn't it being a amputee, being a veteran and an day-to-day life, they are struggling. I think we are struggling some shape or form, but however I think we, if we can share our experience and knowledge with each other, I think it just to be a a better place I guess.
00:12:52 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, totally. Well, I mean, again, we touched on some very, very interesting and important points there and that's what what you're doing by leading Justin and Harry and Stefan.
00:13:04 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You know, up these mountains is is your.
00:13:07 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Providing A pathway for them to, you know, no doubt, rediscover their purpose again and and Justin and I spoke last week on a previous Tales Adventure podcast about his new, you know, his new mission since the since that fateful day on operations has been to show people.
00:13:27 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
What?
00:13:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Disabled athletes can do you know, and he we we got talking about him printing new prostheses, you know, to new new carbon fibre attachments to his foot. And the things that he's learning from it and then setting an inspiring example for other people, it's.
00:13:49 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Genuine. I think I I was welling up at one point because it was, you know, incredible to to 1st meet him at the Geographical society and then hear more about his stories.
00:14:00 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
UM later on afterwards. What's a bit of a change? Change of question. What was it that first attracted you to? To mountaineering, do you think?
00:14:11 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
That was a very interesting question, Chris. In fact, it's.
00:14:15 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
It was.
00:14:17 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, like it's actually when I was in the mountain in Nepal, I used to obviously when I was young, I used to see a lot of, you know, tourists and and foreigner, you know, coming in and climbing and going to the Everest. I was just like, oh, my God, these people are stupid. You know why they climbing?
00:14:34 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
It's like climbing a rock or The Walking in. I I couldn't understand.
00:14:38 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I think when I was in Nepal, but I think interestingly the interesting fact for me is I learn and know climbing. You know, since I joined the, you know, joined the Gurkhas and British Army. And I start actually climbing last 15 years and the.
00:14:58 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Interesting fact was the uh, you know, when I actually gone first time climbing in the Mont Blanc in the 3000 metre and I had altitude sickness and nearly nearly nearly fent fent there.
00:15:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hey.
00:15:13 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah, I had. I had, I had months in sickness for the first time last year in Kyrgyzstan. And yeah, you know, I was. I was like, ohh. This is what mountain sickness feels like.
00:15:25 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yes, it's it was really, really interesting. And obviously Chris Lighting you know in, in, in, in our, in our life, as long as we have the open mind and then the sometime I think we have to just important thing what I learn and also maybe from my culture and then my colleagues.
00:15:44 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
We, you know, like walking around and my surrounding is.
00:15:47 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Rather than we, you know, duel in the past or the future, I think if we focus on the present time and whatever the opportunity come up to us and if we grab the right opportunity and take the you know action you know with the conscious and desired mind and I think.
00:16:08 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
That makes me, you know, take this up. You know, like that I had opportunity, and I definitely, I think to me is I took opportunity to explore and then and the start climbing and.
00:16:21 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
So you know, one of those things, you know, one of those thing I think even though for a job or the relationship or the whatever the you know exercise or scenario sometime once you start doing it then actually you became basically the climbing. Now to me it's be my part of life you know.
00:16:42 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I couldn't actually see myself, you know, without climbing or expedition or just going to the nature, you know, find my soul compass. You know what? My heading and just, you know, back to the.
00:16:56 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Sure. And you know, start breathing and that, that that gave me a lot of, you know, sense of belonging and purpose, you know? Yeah.
00:17:03
Yeah.
00:17:07 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, no, I I totally know what you're talking about, because I like over the last eight months since since his injury since the fall, I've had to really deeply think about what it is I've I've been getting out of mountaineering and it's part of it is that, you know, the risk.
00:17:26 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Part of it is the you know, the the the beauty of being up in the mountains and part of it is just having.
00:17:32 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Like you know, the the challenge of getting to the summit because it is some days.
00:17:37 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Ninja, isn't it trying to get to the to the top of the mountain when it is doing everything it can to to to stop you from doing it or feels like it is anyway.
00:17:48 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think the. But I think I think the, I think a lot of lot of us look at you know like whatever the climbing the Everest or Cato I think in our life we are climbing.
00:18:04 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Some sort of average on a day-to-day basis anyway. You know whatever the family life or job or thing. And also I look at as a climbing as a you know the not only obviously being a submit or submit and going submit the whatever the mountain either care to Everest or dollar agree or the you know mount.
00:18:25 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Strong.
00:18:26 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I will always, you know, my experience is I always and share the knowledge and my experience with, with with you know, Justin, Harry and Estefan and other guys as well. Every time it's all about I think journey and then climbing it's not about being a you know on the peak but all the ingredient and all the you know if you can put ourselves.
00:18:46 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Our you know, our psychological, our philosophical, our basic admin.
00:18:51 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And basic emotion get act together and and if we move as a good team and good speed and I'm sure I think then you know whatever our mission is you know in inevitable you know I think that's that's kind of the.
00:19:08 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
My spirit, I would say.
00:19:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. You say the the mountaineering is actually is very similar to real life, isn't it because you.
00:19:21 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You learn a lot of skills on the mountain, like teamwork, like leadership like like staying.
00:19:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
In the moment and and not panicking when things go wrong and and stuff like that, that becomes actually a really a really useful life. You know, set of life lessons for real life, you know, especially like like now in the middle of a of a global pandemic where we we're recording this podcast over mobile phones and over.
00:19:50 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Zoom. You know, I think there's definitely some things from mountaineering which got me through three months of being in hospital for, you know, for absolutely.
00:20:01 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, absolutely, Chris. I think you are absolutely right, because it was very interesting because you know last last week, you know, I actually put myself, you know, you know like just going through the, you know like walking through the London and then there's.
00:20:19 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, surprisingly obviously you know, there is a reason, but the fear we have, you know, I think the fear of unknown.
00:20:27 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And then the, I think fear of uncertainty for us is I try to, you know like to try to see the fear we have right now, the COVID-19 and also the, you know like when you have climbing the matter on, you know, the any of the climbing, you know, what's the fear there? I think, you know it's it's it's.
00:20:47 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
It's very interesting and and I I think the more.
00:20:51 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
More we conscious about our own life or what are the basic needs of human being? Life, for example, for, you know, like we only our survival instinct are you know how can we feel? How can we see? How can we hear how can we touch and smell and then that's our survival instinct.
00:21:11 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I think if we can mastered our sense and if we can master our, you know.
00:21:21 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
All our needs and what we need and then if we can put it outside, you know, and then maybe the what our needs and absolute survival and that's I think we can put a lot of lot of things in perspective. You know I think obviously like you know Chris I think this thing has to be.
00:21:40 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, we have to go through the certain challenges and.
00:21:44 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
So our life will teach you lesson. I think you know you have. I'm sure you have gone through that, you know, different process your life as well-being a war and and you know being came here and have injured you know after the climbing and I think the understanding understanding of our own soul and own needs and rather than just.
00:22:05 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know.
00:22:06 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And focusing on so many things, which is really, really, you know it's an, it's actually it's not the you know survival instinct for the human existence I guess.
00:22:16 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yes, it's funny. You say that, isn't it? Because.
00:22:22 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You like the, you know, the worst days.
00:22:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Some days you know, you try and you can bear them to the worst days on the mountain, and you're always like, well, at least I wasn't.
00:22:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Like that day on the you know X Mountain where where it's snowing and it's freezing or it's raining and my crampons kept on coming off or, you know, or you're or you're or you're walking up the final approach and you're struggling to breathe. Breathe because there's not much oxygen. It it does. It does.
00:22:54 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Set you up, I think. I reckon a lot better. For real life, doesn't it?
00:22:59 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Absolutely, Chris, I think I absolutely agree with you because a lot of us, I think I think to me it's maybe maybe, you know like obviously I look everything in a positive way. I think that's the only way we can generate our certain, you know hormone and then certain emotional put it in emotional.
00:23:19 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And our in our mindset in the right direction because what I see sometime is being born in the remote mountain having nothing, you know, but actually I born born in the jungle because middle of trees because you know, like we haven't had the hospital there, you know not some things like that.
00:23:37 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
But I think seeing now and compare what I have gone through my own life, my own experience, you know, now living in the UK, you know having the, you know, like kind of comfortable everything and and just seeing is the one I see some of the you know kids and then.
00:23:56 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Some of the.
00:23:57 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Some of us go through the UK, you know, we we don't, we are not so close to the nature. We don't even know some of the people don't know any animals you know.
00:24:05 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And just imagine, you know, I think we are breathing is so important. And in order to us to breathe in, you know, we breathe normally 23 to 24,000 times a day and we really concentrate on breathing. And an important thing for us is to we cannot breathe.
00:24:25 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
If the tree you know if the trees are forest or not exist outside and.
00:24:31 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
We are not. I think we we as a what I said we as a you know Western world is not not not none of us exposed that way to having understanding our inability having understanding ourselves and what is important for us like we say we are focused for so much our needs like we are focused for oh how can we have a good house.
00:24:53 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
How can we have the good car? How can we have good cameras? Actually, you know, I think if we focus for our like, OK, maybe if we close our nose and mouth for two minutes, I think we'll be out of this wall, isn't it?
00:24:57 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:25:07 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And then and then I think those are the thing and we didn't even look at ourselves and close our eyes and then you know just having try to understand ourselves, we try to understand other, we try to understand the cooperation business and so much think, but we really.
00:25:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:25:27 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Close our eyes and then just understand ourselves and our organs, our hearts, our mind, our, you know, like lungs. I think if we have had that kind of the perspective just because I think.
00:25:41 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Like I say, I think I've been very lucky enough and fortunate enough. Born in the, you know, in the Nepal remote Blades, having understanding of survival and being grown up as part of the nature and as part of the integral of the universe system, I think to be honest, I I just literally realising you know lately.
00:26:01 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, when I grown up then why I'm always have this problem. You know, when I used to have, you know, not even £1.00 in my pocket when I was in until I joined the British Army. Now I joined and I got now, you know good kind of stable life and then it's.
00:26:17 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Still, we are still suffering. Somehow some shape or form. You know, I think that's what we maybe that's that's what we need to maybe look into a little bit more I guess.
00:26:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. Yeah. Well, mate, you get me onto a onto a vague question. Next is this.
00:26:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You you set up your own charity, didn't you? To to help.
00:26:43 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You know? Help help friends in you. Could you tell us a bit more about the about your charity?
00:26:48 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yes, absolutely, Chris. I think so. Basically that actually you know like led me to the definitely the next you know like the charity basically what happened was last like I start want to start climbing through the UK.
00:27:03 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I obviously start going back to the, you know, Nepal and doing the tracking and thing and I think and then I realise I compare myself with my my friends, which we born together and you know walked together in the.
00:27:16 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Village.
00:27:17 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And then actually when we when we, you know, go back where we come from.
00:27:23 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
When we go back to the nature then realising our life, you know, I think we are so much fortunate and we don't actually like we say we are run around so much. We're not actually focusing what we are, who we are and how fortunate we are.
00:27:36 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And how you know, gratitude ourselves. And when I go back to Nepal and I see the initial, you know, charity, the sustain Emil Himal and Foundation was we are dedicated to the all the woman you know in in my local areas and also who has gone through the you know we got a lot of big problem.
00:27:56 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Could be.
00:27:57 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Sex traffic, you know, all the Nepalese local girl, obviously they they goes. Obviously they sold parents actually sold their daughters to the, you know, sex traffic which goes to the obviously, you know around the world you know, India, Pakistan, you know all around and then you know via to the Europe and that's something.
00:28:16 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And that taught me quite a lot and.
00:28:20 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And that's what I said. OK, you know, I think I, after reflecting my own life, actually is this financial. And this happiness is never enough, I think. And also having realising that then I realise maybe I can do something here to support the Community some shape or form.
00:28:41 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And and then then also that is the one purpose we started the, you know, support the all the women and girls. And then how can we basically stop the, you know, sex traffic and how can we do the sustainability for all the girls who.
00:29:00 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Are you know now in Nepal and maybe then we that's the that's the reason that we start teaching them climbing and start teaching them, you know, going back to the advance or or they can we can teach them and they can and basically self make them self confident not not tease them but tell them to grow up survive.
00:29:20 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And maybe, you know, maybe, Chris, I think you you, you and I had pretty much similar.
00:29:26 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Friends.
00:29:27 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Once we focus for the, you know, like mind and body climbing and exhibition, then they can actually leave. Leave the you know, live their life happily and and and also. Now lately we've been very fortunate enough and we have got a couple of good friends helping the charity and every time we go and they are now.
00:29:49 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Kind of. If they they are some of the girls that they can lead our tracking, you know, they can help us and actually interesting grace because in the headset advancer all these staff are either the goal.
00:30:04 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And then some of them are, you know, like mentally distressed or some of them are, you know, we we basically try to help those are suffering and then, you know, how can we give them sustainability in the community and recognise them basically that's the.
00:30:23 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Sorry, I don't mean to.
00:30:26 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Interrupt.
00:30:27 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And so, so so like on this, on this zoom call but but by the sounds of it, so you you run HST adventures which is a essentially mountaineering company and then you also run the.
00:30:27 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
No, no, that's absolutely not.
00:30:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The Sustainable Himalayan Foundation, which which prevents and deters sex trafficking but then also provides like employment employment options for for women to get into the the outdoor mountaineering sector, if I understood.
00:31:03 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Right.
00:31:04 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, you are absolutely right, Chris. That's that's the that's that's that is the kind of my you know my vision basically when I started the initially started the HST adventure then I then recognised maybe initially we can help the local community and especially I thought.
00:31:24 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
With the you know all the girls and and like, you know, a ridiculous thing. His parents were actually selling their daughter.
00:31:32 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And then then we can't just stop them. Not, you know, like, stop them selling. But how can we kind of grow, you know, these kids, you know, not only the, you know, like, not only the, you know, like the woman, but also, you know, like how can we prevent all this? You know, you know, this this unfortunate.
00:31:33
Hmm.
00:31:52 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Kids grown up in the mountain and thing and we can help them so and indirectly and and every time. Basically we try to so that basically what happened is at anytime.
00:32:05 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
When we have a client or go to the tracking or exhibition or the charity, whatever, then we try to employ this, you know, like the woman we try to employ these kids. Who can we, you know, give them sustainability and and better, better, better life, I guess in a good way.
00:32:23 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, it tends to. I mean the the.
00:32:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The Mountaineer sector itself is is, you know, pretty vast. And so you know, some to, to, to, to be able to still go about doing, you know, mountaineering expedition, but then know that you're contributing to the the local community and, you know, empowering women to to to get into the sector and.
00:32:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And be responsible for their own.
00:32:51 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
There are, you know, livelihoods as well is is utterly fantastic. I think it's a brilliant initiative.
00:32:59 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we that's what we try to achieve, Chris, you know that. But obviously, life is not that easy.
00:33:08 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:10 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
My God. Yeah. So. So I guess silly question, what? What's next, then? What do you what? What does the future hold for you and HST and sustainable Himalayan foundation do you think?
00:33:25 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, it's a very good question, Chris. I think you know, because of the current situation, you know COVID-19 pretty much everything is everything is, you know, postponed. But however, I think we've been very lucky.
00:33:44 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
HST advance have been very lucky I think especially I think.
00:33:48 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I can see the lot of veteran, you know, kind of interesting and and you know, doing some adventure and and you know we got, you know, like quite big interest. You know, I think I guess rock to recovery and and axe.
00:34:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes.
00:34:08 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Expos and then the some other big charity. We're not actually involving, but I think what happened is I think, Chris, I think in here is even though I don't know none of them but the guys we have got now line up.
00:34:22 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
These in all the pretty much, I would say pretty much 60% are interested clients are all veteran or ex servicemen and or some sort of say you know like you know mental health and they wanted to focus on thing they wanted some do some challenging and because of that.
00:34:43 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Every, every, every veteran or every, you know, like guys are related to some sort of charity.
00:34:51
Yeah.
00:34:51 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
So I think we got obviously there's obviously line up. You know we got couple up for Everest, we even got some K2 and especially the big interesting thing is Greece. I think we got about maybe 20 of the all veteran PTSD veteran for the Alvaro S.
00:35:10 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Well wow. Ohh wow.
00:35:11 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
We're supposed to have this one.
00:35:13 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And we hopefully you know, hopefully it goes well and all of them are PTSD. All of them are related something and raise the money for some sort of veteran charity, some shape or form. And the I'm very delighted to you know be a part of them and and we also let's see Chris I think we also got.
00:35:33 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Maybe ITV and and they wanted to maybe.
00:35:38 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, like kind of do some sort of, you know, visual for them, I'm hoping, but obviously it's that was a talk going on and everything was set for this July. But obviously you know, at the moment pretty much postpone.
00:35:57 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, it it's funny. Funny to say that cause Justin said his one of his next. He's obviously working his way around the seven summit.
00:36:05 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And and he's aiming to do. He's aiming to that Elbrus trip with you. Uh, obviously. If the window stays open when coronavirus goes is is that?
00:36:15 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Right. Yeah, absolutely, Chris, you are right. So yeah, Justin and the yeah, Justin and all, all, all the guys and you know like.
00:36:25 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
We.
00:36:26 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Working on the you know few project in the future and hopefully you know hopefully we we can help his dream come true and I'm sure you know he's as you know Chris he's a very strong you know and and both mentally and physically at the very interesting thing Chris. I think what I've found is and about the Justin and.
00:36:38 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:36:45 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Any other and then Justin, Harry and then any other veteran, basically actual men are it's like whatever time like, you know 10 AM 11 AM, 1:00 AM. You know, whatever time right guys we need to go there like.
00:36:59 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Good to go. It's it's it's, it's brilliant. And and that's what Chris Tuban is. I think that's what gives me a lot of you know energy and my, you know and and you know I can't I can't just step back and I need to I think we need to walk walk out and we need to help.
00:37:19 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Basically, I think help each other to whatever the you know as much as possible.
00:37:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, definitely it's.
00:37:28 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You know, I can imagine having leading a group of.
00:37:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
People who are hugely enthusiastic must make it obviously a little bit easier and and more enjoyable for, you know, for being up in the mountains when you've got, we just have to say we're gonna be up at 1:00 AM to go for the summit and they're, you know, they're they're up, ready and waiting.
00:37:49 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Thing.
00:37:50 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
By the time you come to leave, it's. Yeah, fantastically. I'm literally speechless.
00:37:57 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I I think about the my own, you know, some. So I did Mont Blanc a couple of years ago and I've been working on the Matterhorn for the last last two years. But did. Yeah, what? Two weeks in Kyrgyzstan last year claiming unclimbed peaks and.
00:38:15 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's that you you always feel exhausted when you get to get up super early, for for summer day, don't you? And then once you get to summit, it feels fantastic. But it's it takes a lot.
00:38:28 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
To to motivate a team, doesn't it? When they're when you're, when you're on Summit day and things feel really hard.
00:38:35 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, absolutely. I think absolutely, Chris, I think I think that's why I think as long as we have the positive mindset and positive region, I think that's why I think whenever I.
00:38:48 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I I kind of, you know my make my decision for whatever the cause or whatever the reason. I think if as long as you have the good you know like gratitude reason you know this is the reason not I'm not the reason you know I'm not the reason to be here I am there because these are the guys you know.
00:39:09 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
These are the reasons. So then, as long as we if as long as we have that you know if we have the focus with the you know emotion, energy and body and mind and then the find the right position.
00:39:22 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
You know, attitude, I think then that's that's keep me going and you know, keep me work hard and I think and give me a lot of you know give me very compassion about the working with the guys.
00:39:39 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. Yeah, that's. I mean, yeah, it's, it's actually incredible. I would love to be on Elbrus with you guys and you know, this year my, my leg won't be healed. I don't think before, before the end of summer, so.
00:39:54 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I have to when I have to hopefully do next year. So what's UM, what the future expeditions you got planned with with HST? Then what's after Elbrus? What's what's coming up next?
00:40:05 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
For it, we got interestingly quite few at the moment, Chris. I think we got obviously.
00:40:15 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
7000 metre lineup next.
00:40:18 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
With possibly Harry, Justin and some other some other guys in Nepal and also obviously like you know, we got Arkham Cargo and we got that 20 veteran, all the PTSD related akaga pretty much confirmed we just we're just we're just waiting for the date.
00:40:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:40:39 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Sorry, Alvaro S we got that Elvis going on. Then we also got the couple of veteran support charity supported group going through the Seven Summit. We got couple of project going on.
00:40:53 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And and also we got the Denali pretty much confirm and the and the few you know you know like few few other trip you know in in the obviously Mount Blanc and the some of the staff K2K2 are also few.
00:41:12 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Alright, well.
00:41:14 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
All primas all veteran Greece at the moment. Yet we got so far we got 2024 up to 2024 kind of, you know provisional.
00:41:18
Yeah.
00:41:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Man, that was incredible. That's like my God. What's?
00:41:31 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Where? Where can we find out more information? Like is our website is there. Have you got somewhere? Where? Where you've got rough dates posted because I would love to join an all veteran team at Elbrus and Denali. And they it all sounds good. Where? Where can we find out more information?
00:41:50 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, I think we we got pretty much our blog going on. Obviously HSD advancer.com.
00:41:57 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And the obviously on the web page as well. And obviously we are trying to keep active through the all HSD adventures on the Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and then LinkedIn. And we tried to keep on posting our date and the and then any of the charity.
00:42:17 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
For the Sustainable Himalayan Foundation we there's a few event and you know and then the track going on as well. We keep it on the sustainable Himalayan foundation dot.
00:42:29 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Work and yeah, we definitely if if any of wanted to click in any of the pretty much all the media platform platform, we are there.
00:42:42 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. Yeah, mate, that's that's absolutely incredible. I'm literally gonna gonna jump on there as soon as as soon as we're finished recording.
00:42:50 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And.
00:42:51 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
My God, I would, yeah, I would love to be there with a camera in hand and yeah, just hanging out with with everyone who are veterans. And I realised times pushing on a bit now, so I'll I'll jump immediately on to the on to the last question, has there been anyone instrumental in your journey that you want?
00:43:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
To say thank you to you or or highlight on the podcast before I leave you to your afternoon.
00:43:18 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah, I think I think like first of all, Chris, I like to thank you for, you know, giving me, you know this opportunity and kind of expressing pretty, pretty much pretty much this possibly the first time I'm I'm doing the you know kind of the talking about the HSD.
00:43:37 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Advancer and Sustainable Himalayan Foundation and I'm very grateful for that. And and also I think I'm very grateful for all the, you know, my colleagues over the year and you know and and especially very grateful for the all the you know everything you know I think life is the.
00:43:57 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
I guess life is a journey and then I think to me is and then to everyone who listened is the. As long as we keep our open head and open arms and then, you know, don't don't duel in the past or the future and then just stay for the you know.
00:44:17 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Urgent moment. And then and just take it as it is and you know and conscious about our breathing and our body, mind and emotion and obviously it's.
00:44:28 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
It will definitely lead us to the positive outcome.
00:44:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah, right. And I'll tell you what it's such. It's such a good advice for the moment as well, isn't it? Where it it seems like coronavirus could go on for months and the the whole, the whole thing seems very uncertain. But I think just bring it back to basics and practising those.
00:44:53 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You know those things you mentioned is a is a is definitely a good strategy.
00:44:58 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Chris.
00:45:00 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hey, but so before I let you go, do you just want to give us give us a signpost towards your websites or any other organisations you're involved with, or any anything?
00:45:18 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. Anything you want to the floor is yours.
00:45:21 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Cheers mate. Thank you very much. So yeah, again thank you. And and obviously like like I say, sustainable Himalayan foundation dot work for the charity and then the HST adventures for the all the media platform.
00:45:40 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
And I maybe like to express my thank you for the HR4K.
00:45:46 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
London, which is one of my very really good friends and and to be honest, behind the scene they've been instrument, you know, all helping me and and, you know, try to promote promoting us and then also the all the guys you know obviously you know Justin, Harry, Stefan and also the.
00:46:08 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
A lot of friends of you know, ex service personnel and the all the guys who've been walking us with us for next.
00:46:16 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Coming, you know quite a few projects with the veteran and supporting supporting all the veteran owned charities and business. And then if there's anything you know, we can help or share our experience and knowledge help each other. And I'm very grateful and thank you very much.
00:46:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Mate, you're very welcome.
00:46:37 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Chris, you've been a fantastic host and you've already got me thinking about future plans for joining you and Justin and Harry and Steph on these on these expeditions. So mate, thank you very much. I'm going to leave you to your afternoon because I realise I've got a habit of rambling on so mate, thanks for being an awesome guest.
00:46:58 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And uh, yeah, take care.
00:47:01 Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain Leader and founder of HST adventures
Cheers mate. Thank you. Thank you, Chris.
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