For the past few years, I’ve had the privilege to work alongside my wife Delanii to support the Surya Vinayak English School in Bhaktapur, Nepal.

The school is home to around 300 children aged 2-15 and is the first school in Kathmandu area to accept disabled children, despite extremely limited facilities and resources.

We got introduced to the school, which operates on a not-for-profit basis, when Delanii spent some time there as a volunteer teacher in 2011 and since then, with help from generous friends, including my classmates from London Business School, we’ve raised significant amounts of money for the school to build basic facilities including sanitation, hire extra teachers as well as providing teaching aids and materials.

We visit the school on a regular basis, but this was the first time I got a chance to share my story of climbing the pride of Nepal, Mount Everest, with the children and taking the flag of Surya Vinayak English School to the top of the world.

Visiting the school is always a humbling experience as despite the very challenging circumstances the children show amazing desire, fuelled by the dedication of the staff, to create opportunities for themselves through education and improve not only their own lives but the lives of those around them.

We can all learn a lot from them.

Very happy that Facebook is acquiring my latest start-up Pryte as reported by Wall Street Journal, Business Week and others.

This is the fifth start-up I’ve been operationally involved with in technology / telecoms – the five companies have raised a combined US$500m in venture capital and private equity funding, created hundreds of jobs, done business across +50 developed and emerging markets and created significant value to the shareholders – highlighting that the same approach to challenges works – whether your on Mount Everest or building a technology start-up! Now time for me to start planning the next projects!

For details on Pryte and Facebook, please visit www.pryte.com/announcement.html

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of summiting Mount Everest for me. The feelings related to taking those last few steps to the top of the world after years of training, planning and preparation, are still fresh in my mind.

The last two years have given me a lot of perspective to the ambitious project and what I’ve learned from it as an individual. I’ve also gotten a chance to put those learnings to test through sharing my experience with thousands of people at schools, universities and companies around the world through motivational presentations as well as through advising companies on various topics. I’ve also taken on new start-up project, Pryte, my 5th start-up in the technology / telecoms space, where we’ve set our targets pretty high and which I’m very excited about.

I’ll have more to report on Pryte later on, but I can already confirm that the same approach from taking on ambitious high-altitude expeditions also apply to increasing your success in business!

Speaking to Danone’s (famous for baby food) global management training program members visiting Dubai reminded me of some soul searching I had to do on Mount Everest while my wife Delanii was pregnant with our first born Felix

Shared my own leadership experiences from business and mountains to give the participants a different angle on the challenges of leadership.

Spoke at McKinsey & Co’s first iMEO (Inspire Middle East Office) event in Dubai about what inspires me to test my limits in harsh environments like Mount Everest.

Met some very interesting people, had interesting conversations with a comedian and an inventor and inspired a few people not just to their own “mountains”, but real ones too!