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Sat, 31 May 2014 | By timhughes55 | Views [2353]
Today, trekking of the one-foot-in-front-of-the-other variety started in earnest. We woke surprisingly unscathed from our bus ordeal the day before and after breakfast the porters Ram and Nima divided our belongings, leaving us with our lightweight day ... Read more >
Tags: bhanda, everest base camp trek, shivalaya
Sat, 31 May 2014 | By timhughes55 | Views [5554] | Comments [1]
On the map the road to Shivalaya winds east and north from Kathmandu approximately 220 km. Look closely and you'll see hairpins and switchbacks, but these gross changes of direction only hint at the true nature of the road. It should also be marked ... Read more >
Tags: bus to jiri, everest base camp, kathmandu, shivalaya
Fri, 30 May 2014 | By timhughes55 | Views [654]
Summary:
In April 2014, three 66+ year-old men made the long trek from Shivalaya to Everest Base Camp, using the first 7 days to acclimatize at lower altitude and get into better physical condition before tackling the arduous high altitude stages.... Read more >
Tags: everest base camp, lukla, shivalaya, trek
Mon, 19 May 2014 | By magnificent_glow | Views [424]
Nepal has a population of 26 million, the currency is the Nepalese rupee, and the capital is Kathmandu and it is where we start a journey of which takes us in a horse shoe shaped adventure that starts in the Nepalese capital and goes around to china, ... Read more >
Tags: everest, himalayas, trekking
Sat, 10 May 2014 | By dblatt | Views [420]
Healthcare in Nepal is by most western standards, rudimentary. It also seems as though, at least in this village of Bhaunne, to be a fairly novel establiishment. The reason I say this, is that most of the patients we have seen think that there is a definite ... Read more >
Mon, 5 May 2014 | By dblatt | Views [491]
This past weekend was a nice adventure. Friday, I finally met the founder of the clinic, Debendra Karki, when he made his way back from a mountain trek to the village. He one of the only tall nepali people I have met. In fact, he is one of the few Nepali ... Read more >
Mon, 5 May 2014 | By dblatt | Views [432]
It's starting to get a bit more hot nowadays. I don't quite know the degree, but let's just note that it's squarely in the range between "Always Sweaty" and "Ouch". It has come to my attention that rather than sprawl out on my mat hoping for a crosswind, ... Read more >
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 | By dblatt | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 15 Apr 2014 | By dblatt | Views [439]
It is now the year 2071. Today is the Nepali New Year. We celebrated by making a small pilgrimage to a Hindu temple. We had to take a bus down the main road out of town. While walking to the bus, there was a "shuttle" driving by our ... Read more >
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 | By dblatt | Views [478]
I've been here almost a week now and the past couple of days have been exciting. Each day starts with one of our neighbors bringing some freshly uttered milk. It is obviously delicious rich whole milk, but even after its necessary boiling, ... Read more >
Sat, 12 Apr 2014 | By dblatt | Views [661] | Comments [1]
It's 3:45 am , and I am in my private sanctuary of netting, mosquitoes hovering a safe distance away. These past three days have been tiring, but I can already see how satisfying a decision it will have become to embark ... Read more >
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 | By high_altitide | Views [513]
This one is a off the scale in terms of the old Disneyland A-E tickets. Although it ends up being one hour from wheels off to on the runway, and about 1/2 hour is spent either in smog or in clouds the Everest flight cannot be missed. Every ... Read more >
Wed, 9 Apr 2014 | By high_altitide | Views [565]
I really didn't mean that title as a mountaineering double entendre. I do not believe that I gave the city much justice on my last post because I forgot to mention the scheduled power outages. The country seems to have been naughty in not ... Read more >
Tags: everest, trekking
Wed, 9 Apr 2014 | By high_altitide | Views [440]
For the flying cognoscenti it was SAN-ORD-LHR-BKK-KTM.
Three hours to Chicago with a slightly early arrival for a tight connection to London. The only inconvenience was having to walk from C to B terminal. I forgot to mention that naturally ... Read more >
Wed, 9 Apr 2014 | By high_altitide | Views [477] | Comments [1]
Elevation 1450m/4500ft
Well, here I am in Shangri La. Where the air is so polluted the risen sun appears as a fuzzy orange ball in a seipia cloud. Where the streets look like jigsaw puzzles topped with a cake of fine dust. Where ... Read more >
Tags: everest, trekking
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