Tag: Everest Base Camp

  • Namche Bazaar, the Haikus

    Namche Bazaar, the Haikus

    the wait, the long wait a weather-borne tragedy oh my sweet defeat   but then among clouds: helicoptors are the best the timer reset   through the mist and fog a clearing among giants I stand on my feet   we begin at last but, dear air, where did you go? lethargy, no, no!  …

  • Tree Hugger 

    Chronology is someone else’s problem. I’m more a stream of consciousness girl. I’ve already told you about my motivations for going to Everest Base Camp – and then there’s the journey and the preparation for the journey, the gear, the must haves and the never do this. Let’s talk touchy feely preparation. I knew from…

  • Explorer Spirit

    In the next couple of weeks, the Everest climbing season will culminate in mass summit bids to the top. Climbers and trekkers from around the world have headed to Nepal to make their pipe dreams a reality. Maybe now is the time to start spilling my guts about my own experience to Everest Base Camp…

  • Why Nepal and Why Now

    It is hard facing the dark after a beautiful light is so suddenly extinguished and yet Stevie Nicks’ haunting voice rises up to remind me, “there’s a heartbeat and it never really dies.” This, I remind myself as I sit at a funeral of an 18-year-old who’d died so tragically in a car accident a…