Madhu said there was no point in trying to get transport to Syabrubesi from Dunche, as it is infrequent and…
Langtang in Winter
Day 0: Wednesday 12 February 2020There was a window of opportunity in February, before work obligations in the spring. Covid…
Gokyo to Everest Base Camp: returning to Salleri
Sunday January 13th, 2019. Amazingly this is Day 18. Coming down is all part of the experience, and allows a…
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…
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:…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…