Category Archives: Everest 2011

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Comments on my Book – Everest! A Trek to Base Camp and Back

A collection of clients’ and friends’ comments Everest! A Trek to Base Camp and Back: Published November 2012 Comments were sent by clients and friends after receiving a copy of the book at a Multi Media Presentation: What I Learned on the Way to Mount Everest: November 2012 and February 2013  Based on a trek […]

Everest! A Trek to Base Camp and Back – 2011 – Update 5

Everest Base Camp Update 5 We made it to Everest Base Camp today.  After seven days of very hard trekking – I would rather call it climbing – we finally reached our goal: Everest Base Camp at 5,364 metres (17,700 ft.)  Today’s hike was brutal.  Many elevation changes, scampering over huge boulders, loose gravel, drop-offs […]

Everest! A Trek to Base Camp and Back – 2011 – Update 3

Had a great breakfast.  Feeling much better.  Ready for Everest! Then saw this headline in today’s paper:                   This turned into 3,000 trekkers stranded for five days… We headed to the airport at 8 am. anyhow. Read the article here: http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Hundreds+of+Solu+tourists+stranded&NewsID=307932