From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 8 of There Are Signs Everywhere Safe and sound at JFK after three weeks on this awesome epic zen adventure. Thanks to my friends and colleagues, the WMS and Peak Promotions for making it work, helping clear the schedule, setting me up…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 7 of There Are Signs Everywhere “And then there were ten” (almost nine) Everything turned out all right in the end. But it had been an eventful 24 hours or so. Our down trekking days proved to be, in ways,…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 6 of There Are Signs Everywhere. Exactly one year ago: The Night Before We spent the night before Everest Base Camp (EBC) arrival at Gorakshep where we did some solar charging and sunset watching. Climax Day The Kalapatthar group arrived at…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 5 of There Are Signs Everywhere It was Easter Sunday the day we left for Pheriche. The sunrise from Tengboche left me speechless: Half the group spent some early morning hours at the Monestary. The other half had our own…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 4 of There Are Signs Everywhere It was a full day of a beautiful acclimatization hike to Kumjung then on to Kunde and back to Namche to sleep at a lower elevation. Ama Dablam, the Nepalese Matterhorn meaning “Mother’s Necklace”, and…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 3 of There Are Signs Everywhere As luck would have it, just after Jim taught me how to get the histogram on my camera display, the Rebel T2i battery ran out, so most pics from day one were iPhone specials. They…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 2 of There Are Signs Everywhere The trek along the Khumbu is beautiful and loaded with quaint tea houses and lodges. We covered acclimatization yesterday in the airport while waiting for a safe time to fly in to Lukla. Only about…
On the Eve of the 2014 Climbing Season, a Look Back at the 2013 Journey to Everest Basecamp The Prep One pair of down booties, one already worn Lonely Planet, a steri-pen (with extra batteries), one borrowed tripod for my camera that can’t take a bad picture (dressed to the nines with the new insanely…
A little over a year ago, a last-minute invitation landed in my inbox to lead a Wilderness Medicine Course. It was a CME (Continuing Medical Education) while trekking to Everest Basecamp. The original trip leader was sick and wouldn’t be able to make the trek. For about a week the invitation sat in my inbox, until…
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