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Day 14 – The Best View of Everest outside Everest!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 19, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/Summit/The Girls
  • Post comments:1,973 Comments

Today was our last rest day before our departure to Camp 1. Granted that this rest day wouldn’t be a lazy rest day. Today we’d hike up to Advanced Base…

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Day 13 – A welcome into the Mountain and final arrival into Lukla

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 18, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/Summit/The Girls
  • Post comments:1,909 Comments

Today was an exciting day for us at Base Camp. Mike and Dorjee ,our lead guides, will be leading us into the Khumbu ice fall for a real practice on…

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Day 12 – Remembering my Mama Telle!

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 17, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/Summit/The Girls
  • Post comments:359 Comments

I had a hard time sleeping through the night. Maybe the food from the evening before, or maybe the fact that is April 16th and the 3rd anniversary of my…

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Day 11 – A new start and ongoing transitions

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:April 16, 2016
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/San Francisco/SF Girls/Summit/The Girls
  • Post comments:288 Comments

Wake up call and breakfast by 8am. My first night at Base Camp hadn’t been the greatest. It was extremely freezing cold and the rumbling sounds of avalanches kept me…

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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:2,795 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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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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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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Day 10: The long return

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:November 26, 2015
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/Summit/The Girls

My heart will go on.. and the blessings…. On today’s journey we’d start our climb into the Tengboche Monastery and then continue the trek varying between steep downhill climbs to…

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Day 9: A long descent

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:November 25, 2015
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/Summit/The Girls

We all awoke quite relieved about our day. All the girls were excited to start the descent and looking forward to more of the oxygen. After a quick breakfast we were all out…

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Day 8: A very yak day

  • Post author:Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
  • Post published:November 25, 2015
  • Post category:Adventure/Everest/Summit/The Girls

One of the most magical experiences on this journey has been the way we all together have worked as a team. Everyone’s spirit after Base Camp was joyful but exhausted.…

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