Category Archives: Everest and Nepal

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