My spontaneous decision to hike to Everest Base Camp dawned on me a few days before leaving. Not the 120km itself, but the many questions accompanying it. Where…
‘All truely great thoughts are conceived whilst walking’- Friedrich Nietzche Dingboche: 4360m. Our second acclimatisation day, our first day of being shrouded in cloud, and my 25th birthday.…
‘The mountains are calling and I must go’ – John Muir Kilimanjaro or Everest Base Camp? Whilst there are many other amazing hikes out there- some as popular,…
‘There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing’- Alfred Wainwright The sleeping bag the company had kindly loaned me had thrown in a curveball. A large…