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Hard as it may seem to believe, I found a movie about Everest I have not seen before… The Conquest of Everest. This 1953 movie was filmed while Hillary and Tenzing were summitting Everest for the first time in history. The ‘home movie’ feel to the film along with the melodramatic background music and [...] Several years ago, while touring The Egyptian Museum in Cairo and leaning up against some priceless, ancient artifact in what was more of a science fair on steroids than a museum, I heard an excited tour guide talking about the impending renovation of the museum that would make it state-of-the-art. It made me a [...] A friend of mine wants to learn the national flags of all of the countries in the world. Jodi, this post is for you. Red with a blue border around the unique shape of two overlapping right triangles; the smaller, upper triangle bears a white stylized moon and the larger, lower triangle displays a white 12-pointed [...] Had to take a blog break…but, I’m getting ready to be back soon! Needed time to really think about this blog and why I am spending time with it. I haven’t been really happy with it and want to take it up a notch or two. Expect to see some of the old [...] I have to admit it, today was pretty terrific. I closed the loop on a bunch of small projects that had just been hanging out there until I had “time to finish them.” Unfortunately, not all of my chores are done, but I feel pretty good nonetheless. I guess that’s why people like to [...] Day 16 – Namche/Lukla Head back towards the trailhead at Lukla, bidding farewell to this incredible setting, the villages and the people of the Khumbu hills and valleys. Make your final climb into Lukla. Approx. trekking time: 6 to 7 hours Day 17 – Lukla/Kathmandu The flight out offers a final opportunity for an [...] Day 14 – Loboje/Pangboche (12,956 ft.) Heading down now, the going is easier and the pace faster. Descending via Pheriche to Pangboche. Approx. trekking time: 5 to 6 hours. Day 15 – Pangboche/Namche This morning we climb to upper Pangboche, where the oldest monastery of Khumbu is located. We’ll keep on high trail following [...] Day 13 – Gorak Shep/Everest Base Camp (17,500 ft.)/Loboje Today is the culmination of your journey — the day you reach Everest base camp. Soon after departing Gorak Shep, leave the moraines behind and follow the streams of the glacier. Directly before you is the great Khumbu Icefall, a slow tumble of ice boulders [...] Day 12 – Loboje/Kala Patthar (18,192 ft.)/Gorak Shep (16,404 ft.) An early start takes the team along a rough path beside the Khumbu Glacier to the tea shacks at Gorak Shep. From there, climb for approximately two hours, surrounded by a crown of peaks including Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Changtse and Ama Dablam. Stop at [...] Day 11 – Pheriche/Loboje (16,177 ft.) Now we are right up among the high peaks and closing in on our goal: Everest base camp, the setting-off point for all the ascents of the world’s tallest mountain. We take the flat trail through Phulangkarpo Pasteur and up to Dughla, breathing in the views of Tawoche [...] |
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