Whenever I travel, I keep a detailed itinerary on the notepad on my phone. I also use it as a place to jot down thoughts or memories from the experience. Sometimes there’s not a whole lot to write, and I delete the note at the end of the trip. But on some trips, it turns into a travel journal. And on others it just might turn into a blog post. Like it did for the series There Are Signs Everwhere.
A Travel Journal of sorts
Cleaning out my phone last week I found this note from a couple years ago. It was our last supper on the trail. Glen went around the room asking everyone what was the first food they would eat when they returned home from Nepal – a fun exercise after weeks of dal bhat.
Glen with his go-go-gadget cap
But his question got me thinking about what I would miss from the trail once I got home and had my first bite of sushi followed by a fish taco. That night I generated this Khumbu Miss List. I still miss all these things, but more than missing, reading this last week (while sitting in an airport), put an enormous smile on my face. I’ve supplemented the list with photos because in my world, a picture says a thousand words.
The Khumbu Miss List
4/14/2013 – What I will miss & hope to remember always:
Wake-up tea – Milk tea or Black tea?
Tea time in a tea house on the Khumbu Trail. Tea was also delivered to trekkers in their rooms or tents each morning on the trail.
Okay!!! Phula style
Phula Sherpa, also Ace Photographer
Garlic soup?
12-year-old-boy Humor is under-rated and key to daily laughter
Caption unnecessary
Khumbu Icefall
The kind, smiling, affectionate, hardworking, beautiful Nepali people
At Kunde Hospital in Khumjung
Beloved Sherpa guides
Bluebird Khumbu days
Khumbu puppies
Khumbu Mountain Puppy. I’m not sure how he didn’t wind up in my backpack trekking home.
Himalayan mountains
Photo by Jim Schultz
Amadibdab / Ama Dablam
Ama Dablam “Mother’s Necklace” – Matterhorn of the Himalaya. Fave mountain
Pyramids, handstands & cartwheels
On an acclimatization hike above Namche
Cartwheeling above Namche
Pranav’s Quiet Dry Humor
Clay contradictory Morris
Signed with love and respect
Khumbu Lyft – before it’s time.
Running into the same trekkers throughout the Khumbu – old friends by the end
UK Firefighter trekking about
Hot orange tang
Big Everest beer
Trek Finale beer in Lukla 9,300 + ft
Pasang’s happy confident smile
Pasang Sherpa
Chung N’uri’s smile
Sherpa tea and digestif biscuits after Kalapatthar, approaching base camp
Happy campers 45 minutes from EBC
Sun-drenched tent nap at Everest Base Camp
Jim taking photos with my camera and tripod because my fingers were cold to do the job
Milky Way over the Himalaya
Non-drunk table games in Lobuche
Keeping warm and sharp in Lobuche
Trekking every day
Another gorgeous day in the Khumbu
Jonh’s perseverence
Being around 11-20 fun interesting people I like on a daily basis – priceless
Laughing
“bistaari, bistaari”
Glen’s positive attitude 24-7. I hope I can access the “Glenergy” daily.
Captain Positive Outlook
Laura’s intensity and passion for her work – inspiring!
Chris & Laura’s amazing grown up father daughter relationship that is sometimes hysterically paradoxical.
Clay photobombs father daughter moment in Lobuche
Alena’s inquisitiveness
Scottish accents
Kirsty’s dry sweet almost nun-like wit that can get super dirty
The one and only Kirsty
Deja’s awesome eyes
Jim’s kindness – the trekking soulmate everyone wants on their journey
Nepal Post-Earthquake
The trail to Everest Base Camp is intact, but much of Nepal has an uphill climb to recover from the earthquake in April. This prior post about the Nepal earthquake lists organizations that are helping to rebuild Nepal. Recently the Everest ER docs who managed the patients at Base Camp immediately post-Avalanche, induced by the Earthquake in April, Meg Walmsley and Rachel Tullet spoke at the WMS Annual Summer meeting – recap available at Wilderness Medicine Magazine. WMS members can access a video of their talk recounting the Everest ER response to the avalanche. While Everest summit bids from Nepal for 2016 still hold many questions for climbers, trekking in the Khumbu region is expected to resume in the coming season.
The Wilderness
Want to get out there and learn some Wilderness Medicine? Here are the 2015-2016 WMS Adventure CME opportunities. Happy Trails and namaste!
Wild Medicine Girl 
so ready to go home! That was one of the most awesome group I have ever traveled with.
It was a pretty amazing collection of peeps on a trail. So glad I met you!
Awesomeness revisited- thanks, Liz!
Delighted when I found that little list. Glad you liked seeing it :))
What an amazing journey with some pretty amazing people!
Would do it again in a heartbeat.