Everest casts a long shadow. Somewhere between Kathmandu and the clouds, there is a farm. You reach it by a road that narrows as it climbs. The terraces appear first, then the coffee itself, grown in the shadow of the mountains above. In 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to stand there. A lifetime later, his grandson Tashi Tenzing climbed it, and came home to a coffee farm his wife, Bandi Nima Sherpa, was building on the hillside below. She called the place Nuwa Estate.
Seventy thousand Arabica plants grow here now, cultivated without chemicals at altitude, among avocado, banana, and Himalayan spice. Each cherry tended by hand. Small-batch roasted. A flavor that could only come from here. What the farm earns, it returns. Schools, clinics, and the forests that shelter them.
Planet 5 brought it home. A mountain preservation company, built on fine art, rare high altitude coffee, Guardian memberships, and expeditions to the places that matter most. The mountains run through all of it.