Ending our Everest Base Camp Trek Things don't always turn out the way you plan.

Day 9-10 - It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Has To Be Medevac-ed Off The Mountain Aka: This is why you buy trip insurance Aka: And...

Day 8 - WE MADE IT TO BASE CAMP To say it was just in the nick of time is not an exaggeration. Both teenagers were struggling with...

Day 7 - Stuck in Mile 19 Hike to Lobuche - 16,236 feet Are you afraid of heights at all? Ever tell yourself not to look down over a ledge...

Day 6 - Merry Christmas from the Himalayas! Went up to a small overlook at around 15,000 feet then came back down to Pheriche (14k) for...

Day 5 - Midnight panic attacks Had a complete and utter breakdown in the middle of the night... It’s cold here at night, probably in the...

Day 4 - Lessons in Parenting Everything about this hike is about the layers. Clothing: we had to be prepared for everything from -5 to 70...

Hike high, rest low. Second day in Namche. Today was an acclimatization day, so we went up 1300 feet (took about two hours) to a nearby...

So....yeah. That was beautiful but pretty daggone scary, landing straight into a mountain on a runway about the size of a postage stamp....

No. Nope. Nah. No ma'am. Not happening. In case you missed last week's post, my daughter and I are trekking to Everest Base Camp in...