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Day 10 – A special Date with Base Camp and a very sad goodbye!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 15, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/Summit/The Girls
  • Post comments:2,796 Comments

Wake up call around 6:30am. For my last night with the team I got to share a room with Paola, which was a sweet treat. Paola’s sense of humor is…

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We all made it to Base Camp!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 15, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Event/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/The Girls
  • Post comments:1,961 Comments

Per the words of Silvia: On Thursday April 14th at 11:15am, we ALL made it to Base Camp of Everest! It was one of the toughest journeys for all of us…

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Day 9 – Base Camp, Puja and a not happy tummy

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 14, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Event/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/The Girls
  • Post comments:879 Comments

Today was a big day for me, heading to Base Camp for the Puja and to meet my expedition team. Shawn (my roommate through this whole journey) and I were…

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Day 8 – A short distance but high altitude day!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 13, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/The Girls
  • Post comments:2,901 Comments

Today April 12th, we were up by 6:30am, our departure time was 8am. Everyone was in great spirits except for Dr. Jackie, somehow the meal from the previous nite gave…

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Day 7 – Rest day in Pheriche and Altitude Survey

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 11, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/The Girls
  • Post comments:2,264 Comments

Today was a mandatory rest day. Everyone felt a little exhausted from the long journey the day before. I emotionally felt quite drained, though the blessings from the Ani’s and…

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Day 6 – A blessed kind of day!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 11, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/The Girls
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An early morning at Deboche. Our plan for the day was to trek to Deboche into Pheriche, it was going to be quite long trek as we were hoping to…

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Day 5 Namche to Deboche (special post from Jess)

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 10, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/Summit/The Girls
  • Post comments:1,906 Comments

Our day 5 is a beautiful write up from Jess Rodriguez Williams! Waking up in Namche, Nepal after five hours of intense trekking the day before was nothing short of…

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Day 2 – Reunited and it felt so good!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/The Girls
  • Post comments:2,321 Comments

Day 2 on Phakding and I was up by 5:30am on Wednesday morning, a very chill breeze even though the skies were opening up. The altitude had affected most of us,…

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And Day 1 of the Trek is here!!!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 6, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/The Girls/Uncategorized
  • Post comments:1,929 Comments

A very early wake-up call at 5am to get everyone ready for the 8am departure. I started feeling a little anxiety as I was packing the luggage I’d leave behind…

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Final Shopping and preparations before our journey

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 5, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/Summit/The Girls/Uncategorized
  • Post comments:5,160 Comments

The day before our big trek and to relieve the tension for our San Francisco team an early morning massage would help the preparation. The rest of the team would…

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