Sunday January 13th, 2019. Amazingly this is Day 18. Coming down is all part of the experience, and allows a … More
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Gokyo to Everest Base Camp (part 2)
Lower altitude permitted some sleep last night. It is snowing, and all views have disappeared, only the sense of the … More
Gokyo to Everest Base Camp
5th January 2019 A gentle sense of achievement flushes the veins, as in the bright air we start to descend: … More
Toward the Unknown Region
This eloquent title belongs to a poem in Walt Whitman´s Leaves of Grass. It begins: Darest thou now, O Soul, … More
Altibajos …. or the ups and downs of the trek – and its exigencies
We have to accept ups and downs, so nicely captured in the Spanish word altibajos. But it is difficult not … More
Take things as they come
Should we embrace a teleological view of the trek, that it only has meaning based on its purpose to complete … More
Zen and the art of trekking
Sometimes the contrast between the real and painful effort made during the trek and the imaginative mental projection of finally … More
Everest Region: to the Gokyo Lakes
Beginnings Exactly ten years ago, during the January school break in Nepal, when I was working in Kathmandu University High … More
Khopra Ridge
Day 16 – Day 21: Tatopani to Nayapul We reached Tatopani by bus from Jomsom. This might have been the … More
Thorung La
Day 11: Shree Kharka to Yak Kharka All preliminaries cast aside, we must attempt the main challenge in the next … More