Hiking to Everest Base Camp
The first part of our trip is flying from Kathmandu to the Lukla airport. The airport has a very short runway and the runway ends into the rock of the mountain. The runway is sloped up to help slow the plane and to help the plane take off. Everybody was a little nervous. Only one…
We had our first hike in Nepal. It was described to us as small hills up and down and it was that. It took about 4 hours to arrive at the teahouse. I was surprised it was so nice (Nepal standards). John and I are rooming together and our room had it’s own toilet and…
Tomorrow morning at 5am we leave for the airport to begin our trek up to Mount Everest Base Camp. Yesterday we had our gear check and weigh in for our gear. We are only allowed 33 pounds of luggage in total between our duffel bag and our pack. I had to take a lot of…
To help with our training for climbing Mount Everest the whole family has Fitbits. A fitbit is an electronic bracelet that tracks your steps, miles, and sleep cycles. The nice thing about Fitbit is that you can share your results for a 7 day average of your steps / miles. Today I was ahead of…
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