- Everest Base Camp #1 & #2
- Inca Trail 2018
- Women's Projects in Tanzania 2018
- Bhutan 2017
- Women's House Building 2017
- Antarctic Adventure
- Greenland by Day Hike
- Fire and Ice: Iceland
- Family Fire & Ice: Iceland
- Mongolia on Horseback
- Raising Voices, Raising Roofs
- New Zealand Adventure
- Inca Trail 2015
- Ethiopia Explorer 2015
- Kilimanjaro Climb 2015
- Patagonia & Wine
- Everest Base Camp 2014
- Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon 2014
- The Way: A Pilgrimage Across Spain
- Belize Dive & Jungle Exploration
- Kilimanjaro Climb 2014
- Everest Base Camp 2013
- Turkey: Mt. Ararat
- Inca Trail II 2013
- Inca Trail I 2013
- 2013 Kilimanjaro Cancer Climb
- Spanish Immersion with Mayan Tropics & Honduran Island Paradise
- Kilimanjaro Climb 2012
- Nicaragua Volunteer Adventure 2012
- In the Footsteps of Buddha 2011
- Iceland & Greenland 2011
- 2011 Kilimanjaro Climb for Cancer
- Everest Base Camp 2010
- Bhutan Sept. 26, 2010
- Galapagos 2010
Trip Blogs: Everest Base Camp #1 & #2
Date: Wednesday, November 14
Location: Kathmandu
We are back in Kathmandu!
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Date: Tuesday, November 13
Location: Lukla, again, No fly day.
Well, we are experiencing the power of nature. Last night it started raining.
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Date: Monday, November 12
Location: Lukla, Yeah!
We have returned to our starting place. All safe. Compare this group shot
with the departing shot early in the trip. We look a bit more worn but
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Date: Sunday, November 11
Location: Phakding, 8800 feet. 7 hours of hiking
Down to lots of oxygen! Yeah, much warmer down here...
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Date: Saturday, November 10
Location: Kyangjuma, 11,500 feet.
Hello out there.
Suppose to be an easy day. Consensus, was NOT!
2 hard uphills, kind of did us in.
Stopped at Tenboche Monastery.
So, tod
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Date: Friday, November 9
Location: Periche, 14,170 feet.
Long and very tough day. But, wow, had 3 of us and 3 Sherpa climb Kala
Patar. The view is stunning. You can see from the South Col the whole
summ
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Date: Thursday, November 8
Location: orak Shep. 17,000 feet and Everest Base Camp! 17.400 feet.
Yes, check out the picture. Joe not there as he stayed behind in Laboche, a bit under the weather but healing.
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Date: Wednesday, November 7
Location: Laboche, 16.200 feet.
Well it is real now. We are one day away from base camp. We can see the
end of the valley. The mountains are hard to describe. Today was a
perfe
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Date: Tuesday, November 6
Location: Denboche to Chuklung and back, up to 15,600
Great acclimatization hike up to 15,600. People did very well.
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Date: Monday, November 5
Location: Denboche, 14,200 feet. Got in by 330. Excellent time.
Picture is Lhoste and Everest is the triangular peak behind it.
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Date: Sunday, November 4
Location: Phortse, 12,500 feet. 2 PM arrival.
We had a nice very slow walk today. As you can see the views up the valley
were spectacular. Every where you look there are high peaks, so sheer, s
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Date: Saturday, November 3
Location: Kumchung, 12,500 feet...
Slow hike uphill to Kumchung. But, we rounded a corner by a tea house,
and....There was Ama Dablam. Wow, such a beautiful mountain.
We sat to have
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Date: Friday, November 2
Location: Namche again.
First great view of Everest today! Big day. Great clear skies. Stayed
for over half an hour taking pictures... fantastic and now each day will
br
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Date: Thursday, November 1
Location: Namche, 11,500. 4 pm arrival.
Had to put up picture of the famous swinging bridge. It is 300 feet above the river.
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Date: Wednesday, October 31st
Location: Over the swinging bridge at Phakding
8500 feet, 3 hours of walking
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Date: Tuesday, October 30
Location: Kathmandu, Bhaktipur
Tour day again. Visited a temple high over the Kathmandu. Lots of building
destroyed by earthquake. Ancient place. Ancient people. Rice fields. Ric
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Date: Monday, October 29
Location: Kathmandu
The holy men, the Sadhus welcomed us to Pashapatinath. It is a funeral pyre
area. What a welcome. All are here, doing well and pretty jet lagged.&n
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Date: Wednesday, October 23
Location: Katmandu!
As you can see we waited a lot today. Many false starts... Many planes
coming and going. After 4 plus hours of waiting we caught the last plane.&nb
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Date: Monday, October 22
Location: Lukla, yeah!
We are all back safe in Lukla . All loving the oxygen!
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Date: Sunday, October 21
Location: Phakding, 9,500 feet 11 miles or so of walking
The photo is of our Sidar Lahpka. He has climbed Everest 6 times. He
lives in Phortse. We had tea at his house. We have worked with him for
over 20
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Date: Saturday, October 20
Location: Near Khumjung, 12,300 feet.
It was suppose to be an easy day. All dowhill. Well. We pulled into our lodge at 5 pm.
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Date: Friday, October 19
Location: Periche, 14,000 feet.
Long day. Climbed Kala Patar 18500 first.
The photo is of Kala Patar. A small peak behind Gorak Shep. Rick, Harry,
Bill and Mike went up with L
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Date: Thursday, October 18
Location: Gorak Shep and Everest Base Camp. Yeah!
We made it! It was not easy. People were really tired getting back to the lodge a little before sunset.
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Date: Wednesday, October 17
Location: Lobuche, 16,300 feet, Arrived 2 pm
Up into the thin, thin air! Bistari, Bistari, slowly, slowly.
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Date: Tuesday, October 16
Location: Device again. We hiked up to 15,500 feet for lunch
Happy Birthday Jean Claude! Thanks for following us so diligently.
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Date: Monday, October 15
Location: Denboche, 14,300 feet. About 7 hours of hiking.
The word for today is uphill. We traversed high in the valley, constantly
gaining elevation. We were so lucky with sky again. Super crisp
ridgeli
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Date: Sunday, October 14
Location: Phortse, the town where our sherpa lives.
12,900 feet. 5 hours of walking.
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Date: Saturday, October 13
Location: Khumjung, 12,500 feet. 3 hour walk.
Have to start with the crushing spectacular view of the Everest Valley. We
climbed slowly for over an hour, rounded a corner at a high hotel and all
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Date: Friday, October 12
Location: Namche again. Rest day.
Sweet day to explore, got up for a warm breakfast. We were hoping to see
Everest from a view point but the clouds were low. So, we chilled drinking
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Date: Thursday, October 11
Location: Namche Bazaar, 13,300 feet, 6 hours of walking.
We turned the corner and there through the pines, on the side of an
impossibly steep hill.... Namche! It is like a city to us. We are in
hotel in
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Date: Wednesday, October 10
Location: Monjo, on the hike to Namche
9300 feet. 4.5 hour hike from Lukla. Up at 4:30 am.
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Date: Tuesday, October 9
Location: Kathmandu and Bhaktipur
Wonderful day of being immersed in Nepal. We started high on a hill
overlooking Kathmandu at an ancient Hindu temple. Picture is of Bill there
ring
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Date: Monday, October 8
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
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