Category: Nepal – 2010

The sherpa cowboy

Day 8 started at 530am with coffee. Breakfast at 6, leave at 7. Our coldest morning yet. We were on the shady side of a windy valley. The water pipes running to the lodge were frozen, toilets unflushable, frost on the ground. We parted ways with Austin, aka Captain Canada. He is on his way […]

Into thin air

Day 9 begins as the rest. Early breakfast, on the trail as soon as the sun breaks into the valley. Leaving Laboche at around 630am, we arrive in Gorak Shep(16,961ft) around 11am. Stopping for a quick tea and a light lunch, only 8 of us make the trek to basecamp. Although there is only a […]

If it was easy, everyone would do it

Day 10… Oh my god, what am I doing here. Here is Gorak Shep(16,961ft). 530am we get up, eat a granola bar, and hit the trail. The sun is barely out, let alone over the mountain tops. It’s freezing cold, and when I say freezing… Tooque, gloves, gortex jacket, fleece, long sleeve, short sleeve, an […]

My apologies

If the last few posts don’t make sense, are scattered, or anything is messed up with them… That’s what altitude does to you. The feeling is indescribable. You become in a trance, a zone with no escape. I did my best to proof read them before posting, but I’m still not back to my usual […]

2 for 1

Day 11. Wow. Talk about sore and tired. We trekked for 11 hours yesterday, in some of the most gruling conditions. I write this blog not to scare and not to worry people, but more to raise awareness of the risks of high altitude trekking. On Day 10 when we returned to Periche, everything was […]

Political unrest

Day 13, the trek is over. As much fun as it was, I’m glad to be out of the mountains. The walk from Ghat to Lukla started at 5am. The weather is sketchy, so we have to get there early to make sure we have tickets for todays flights. No online booking or check-in here. […]

A slight change of plans…

We sit and we wait. Waitting to find out what today will hold for us. The country of Nepal is in a state of unrest. All of the countries roads are closed, we can get ourselves to the airport in Kathmandu, but when we arrive at the airport near the Chitwan we will have no […]

Taken by the cops

Around 1pm Coach informs us we have a ride to the airport. It will be at up at reception around 5. We lay around the pool for for the afternoon. Swimming, having lunch and packing bags were the only things on the agenda. Around 515pm a white truck pulls up with some blue script on […]

Adventures of Keith and Keith

As the adventures of Keith and Keith continue, there is far less downtime for me to write these things. We left Nepal in a hurry. Thankfully our wonderful travel agent, Robin, was able to change all of our flights to accomedate the change of plans. From Kathmandu to Hong Kong, HK to Bangkok… We left […]

Miles from ordinary

Honestly, I couldn’t even tell you what day it is. The day of the week, or day of the month mean absolutely nothing to me right now. We have more than a week of nothing, and it feels great. As we arrived in the Krabi airport we joked about the fact we didn’t even know […]