Janie CrouchJan 1, 20182 min readEverest Base Camp Trek (Day 11-12 Getting home)Ending our Everest Base Camp Trek Things don't always turn out the way you plan.
Janie CrouchDec 28, 20173 min readEverest 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...
Janie CrouchDec 27, 20171 min readEverest 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...
Janie CrouchDec 26, 20172 min readEverest 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...
Janie CrouchDec 25, 20172 min readEverest 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...
Janie CrouchDec 24, 20172 min readEverest 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...
Janie CrouchDec 23, 20171 min readEverest 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...
Janie CrouchDec 21, 20171 min readEverest 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...
Janie CrouchDec 20, 20171 min readEverest 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....
Janie CrouchDec 19, 20171 min readEverest Base Camp Trek (Day 0 - Kathmandu)We made it from Delhi, India (where we took a day to tour the Taj Mahal) to Kathmandu. We're ready for our trek to start! Had trouble...
Janie CrouchOct 22, 20172 min readYou're Climbing Everest???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...