Ujjal Rana, the charismatic owner of the Mount Everest Supreme farm, started a project to grow coffee on 70 hectares of what used to be an almost desert-like rice farm. Today, it looks more like a jungle, with shade trees growing amongst the coffee plants. The predominantly Caturra coffee bushes have taken on the essence of the mountain foothill’s soils and benefit from the climate to deliver a depth and diversity of flavour that is impossible to source anywhere else.