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Question Yak is terrific. He knows just the question to ask. No, Question Yak, it’s not your grunting that’s keeping me awake (I bet I can find an audio file of Yak noises if I looked hard enough). It’s all the information about Mount Everest that is available online. This week I’ve been up way [...]
The alternative title for this post could be, “Scared straight.” Is this what I should be doing? Seriously. 3 hours of training a day? PLUS special training sessions? 10-12 hour training day? Push myself beyond any limitations I have in order to tolerate pain? Let me go back to 3 hours of training a [...] There’s nothing I don’t like more than a good list. And, the feeling of crossing something off a list is sublime. It’s time to start a list, or maybe lists, of what need to be done during the next year to take this adventure. There’s a great deal to do. I’m not a closet mountaineer [...] It was brought to my attention I might want to clarify that I am not planning a trip to Disney World’s Expedition Everest. While Disney may be the “happiest place on Earth,” that’s not my destination. So we can put this confusion completely to rest, let’s review a couple of key details about Expedition Everest… Expedition [...] I’ve got a goal and started to really like the idea (or most of it). Now what? I actually don’t have a clue where to begin. That sounds strange with all the information out there. There may be just too much information available. Googling “Everest” gave me 20,700,000 results. How about Everest Base Camp? A [...] Easing into Sunday, I started the day with coffee, a paper newspaper and YouTube. This is the fist video I watched. My neighbors must think I’m nutty…I was laughing so loudly and it was so early. But, I could see myself saying this after finally reaching Base Camp! It got me thinking. Do I really want to [...] Now that the word was out, how do I get three weeks off of work to take the adventure of a lifetime? Luckily for me, I work for a great company. UCG, a B2B publisher, has a unique vacation policy. Instead of giving people X number of days per year, it relies on people to [...] I’ve gotten a little ahead of myself and need to go back to the beginning. As they say on TV, “Last week on the High Road”…big goal…many options…trek to Everest Base Camp (EBC). Okay, we’re caught up. Once I made the decision to go to EBC, I didn’t tell anyone for a few days. [...] Even at the highest place on Earth there are activities happening to commemorate Earth Day. The Asian Trekking Eco Everest team is hard at work again this year retrieving trash left by the more than 4,000 people who have summited Everest. As reported on the Outside blog… Apa Sherpa (the only man to [...] |
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