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I followed my footsteps: Everest Base Camp Trek #4
31 Oct 2018

I followed my footsteps: Everest Base Camp Trek #4

by admin | posted in: Backpacking, Bucket List, Hiking | 0

Two years ago today: Walking the Everest Base Camp Trail: I creep into Kathmandu in the small hours when only giant mountain dogs and stray donkeys roam the streets. After two nights at the wondrous Himalayan Traveller’s Inn, Thamel (now … Continued

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Couple Marry on Everest:
11 May 2017

Couple Marry on Everest:

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It’s a really catchy headline and image isn’t it – and a great idea? A friend of mine noticed a wee bit of Photoshopping but s/he was being pedantic. I suppose the next ‘logical’ step is for folks to marry … Continued

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That Endless Skyway: Everest Base Camp Trek #7:
2 Dec 2016

That Endless Skyway: Everest Base Camp Trek #7:

by admin | posted in: Backpacking, Bucket List, Hiking, Uncategorized | 0

We had a programmed ‘acclimatisation day’ at Namche and another at Dingboche. Tully had decided we would use these days to climb up to the next 500 metre ‘step’ and then descend again to sleep. This proved to be a … Continued

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Pneumonia: Running Out of Puff: Everest Base Camp Trek #6
23 Nov 2016

Pneumonia: Running Out of Puff: Everest Base Camp Trek #6

by admin | posted in: Australia, Backpacking, Gippsland, Hiking, Mountain Areas of Victoria, Victoria | 4

Three weeks ago now since I left Namche Bazar for Everest with this awful life form growing in my chest like some incubus from ‘Alien’. Since then it and my body have waged an uncivil war back and forth with … Continued

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I Saw Below Me That Golden Valley: Everest Base Camp Trek #5
14 Nov 2016

I Saw Below Me That Golden Valley: Everest Base Camp Trek #5

by admin | posted in: Backpacking, Bucket List, Hiking | 0

It is a pleasant and easy couple of km descent through a pretty forest from Lukla to the  prosperous looking agricultural town of Chheplung (though it is much harder struggling back up the other way on the return journey with … Continued

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‘My life was wide and wild, and who can know my heart? Everest Base Camp Trek #1
20 Sep 2016

‘My life was wide and wild, and who can know my heart? Everest Base Camp Trek #1

by admin | posted in: Backpacking, Bucket List, Hiking | 0

There in that golden jungle I walk alone.’ Judith Wright, The Sisters. This might as well be TheUltralightHikers’ motto as we march forward into the evenings of our lives, ‘bowed but unbroken’. A young friend (http://www.theultralighthiker.com/a-friend-i-met-on-the-dusky-track-fiordland-nz/) has invited me to … Continued

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