Everest Basecamp Day 2
These are terrifyingly big mountains. I feel like they are going to eat me up and swallow me alive. These are twice the size of any mountain I'm used to. When you first land in Lukla and begin your trek the path is so clearly marked it's just short of a road. But there are no roads in these mountains. There are no cars. Making these mountains vastly different from any other sort of hike I've ever experienced. The higher and further you go, the more isolated you get. The more
Everest Basecamp Day 1
Yesterday began our journey to the Basecamp of Mount Everest. Everest Basecamp stands at 17,600 feet high. Everest stands at 29,029 feet high. There are fourteen eight thousanders in the world. They all lie in the Asian Himalayan mountain range. An eight thousander is a mountain whose peak reaches over 8,000 meters, or 26,000 feet. We started the day back at the Kathmandu airport. We were on day two, trying to fly to Lukla, while most others were on day three. On average, fli
