Trip Reports
Namaste and good morning from Dingboche! Today we enjoyed an absolutely beautiful hike up Nangkartshang for a day of acclimatization. We reached a height of 5,100 meters (16,700 feet). We left our warm tea house by the fire at 8:30 a.m. layered up in multiple jackets entering into the cold windy clouds. Midway up the…
Hello from the EBC team! Today we moved from our quaintly perched tea house in Tengboche to Dingboche. A five-hour hike up the Khumbu valley took us out of the trees and into the alpine. Perched directly underneath Ama Dablam with a skyline full of 7,000-meter peaks and a few at 8,000 meters, Dingboche sits…
Dave reported from the Everest Base Camp Trek team in the village of Tengboche. This is a small cluster of lodges and home of the famous Tengboche Monastery. It’s a beautiful stop on the way up the Khumbu, with the sounds of the Bhuddhist monks and views of the peaks coming into view through the…
Today the trekking team headed up to the village of Namche Bazaar at an altitude of 11,300 feet. It’s a long uphill from the Bhote Khosi River bridge up to the village, but the views into the Himalaya just get bigger every step of the way. Namche is the “capitol” of the Khumbu region and…
Our Everest Base Camp trekking team is in Nepal and beginning their nearly three-week journey into the Himalaya. They’ll be trekking up through the Khumbu Valley towards Everest Base Camp, where they’ll spend a couple nights amidst the climbers headed for the summit. After a long flight from the states, the team spent a day…
The climbers summited Aconcagua at 22,841 feet (6,961 meters) on Monday and were back in a nice hotel in Mendoza by Tuesday night. They left High Camp yesterday morning, descending to Base Camp by mid-day and hopped on a helicopter for the ride back out to the trailhead where a van was waiting to take…
The weather improved over the last day-and-a-half, and the team was able to move up to Camp 3 yesterday (Sun, Feb. 6). This morning they woke up early and left high camp for the summit at 5:30 a.m. We’re getting occasional updates today from Base Camp, communicating via radio with the guides on the hill,…
It was another night of wind and snow up at more than 17,000 feet at Camp 2 on Aconcagua. The big storm passed overnight, and the weather improved through the day today. They were able to get out of the tents and walk around a bit after a couple of days of weather delays. The…
Chris made the call for the team’s expedition dispatch today from Camp 2 at 17,700 feet (5,400 meters). They’re still waiting out some weather and watching it snow up there today. They awoke to some mild AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness) symptoms this morning, which is normal as they acclimate to this high altitude. The feeling…
Josie called in from Camp 2 on a snowy day as they enjoyed dinner in the tent. They are getting some time to read and relax a bit while they wait for the weather to change. Everyone is in good spirits and doing well. These storms don’t usually last too long on Aconcagua, so they…