The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition — Hinku Valley to Lukla. Thursday, October 27 Saying goodbye was tough after so much time with such great people. The porters, guides and kitchen staff had performed fantastically and though they were paid well by Nepal standards, we felt indebted to them. Flying to Kathmandu […]

The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition: Heading back down the Hinku Valley. Tuesday, October 25 Sun! Though it froze overnight, the sun rising in the morning was an excellent sign that maybe today would be warmer and less foggy. We also found out that the animals we called yaks, which we thought […]

The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition — Going as high as possible on Mera Peak. Sunday, October 23 It wasn’t a great night of sleep. We finally figured out a system for keeping warm in our sleeping bags, but it was a night of tossing and turning as we exhausted ourselves on […]

The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition — Kote to Tangnag. Wednesday, 19 October Life is great after 14 hours of deep sleep. The morning was clear though it would be a few hours before the sun would warm the valley as a subsidiary summit of Mera Peak shades Tangnag in the early […]

The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition — Ngyngso Camp to Odare Camp. Monday, October 17 Morning was cold and clear and started with the hot water for tea or coffee and washing water, as always. It was very dark on this side of the mountain, shaded as we were by the steep […]

The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition — Namdolingomba to Ngyngso Camp. Sunday, October 16 There was a steady patter of rain on the tent as we fell asleep which we always find very reassuring somehow, perhaps because we live in dry Southern California.  At some point during the night the temperature dropped […]

Dilli Bahadur Rai, or “D.B.” as he is known to his customers, is a senior guide in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal. He comes from the village of Basa 6, one of 9 villages that make up Basa Village Development Committee (VDC). These VDC’s are a creation of the Nepal government for administration purposes and […]

The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition — Spending a day in paradise Adheri, meaning “dark place” was very appropriately named. It sits high on the same steep mountainside that Basa occupies, but is situated in a way that the sun comes up very late over the mountain to the east and sets […]

The following is a continuation of Mera Peak Expedition – Getting in and out of Kathmandu. After our aborted attempt to fly to Phaplu from Kathmandu on Monday, we were able to successfully fly out at around noon on the 11th of October. The Tara Air plane was a small turbo prop that sat 19 […]

No arrival in Kathmandu, Nepal can beat the greeting that we’re always given by our friends from Adventure Geo Treks, known as ‘AGT’ by us, and ‘Geo Treks’ by the locals. For us, they’re much more than a commercial operation and much more like friends. Though he owns and runs one of the largest tour […]