Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 11-12 Getting home)
Ending our Everest Base Camp Trek
Things don't always turn out the way you plan.
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Even angels have their demons.
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Janie Crouch
Dec 28, 20173 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Days 9-10 - Trying to get OFF the mountain)
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...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 27, 20171 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 8 - Lobuche to Base Camp)
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...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 26, 20172 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 7 - Pheriche to Lobuche)
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...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 25, 20172 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 6 - Acclimatization day in Pheriche)
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...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 24, 20172 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 5 - Tengboche to Pheriche)
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...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 23, 20171 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 4 - Namche to Tengboche)
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...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 22, 20171 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 3 - Second Day in Namche)
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...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 21, 20171 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 2 - Phakding to Namche)
Today was just utterly exhausting. Seven hours of uphill hiking from the small village of Phakding to the much larger village of Namche...
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Janie Crouch
Dec 20, 20171 min read
Everest Base Camp Trek (Day 1 - Flight to Lukla and hike to Phakding)
So....yeah. That was beautiful but pretty daggone scary, landing straight into a mountain on a runway about the size of a postage stamp....
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