The Girls

Time to wake up! Today Sunday 15th, our wait time has officially began. The news of Mike from last evening, alerting that we almost departed that evening for a potential…

Since Wednesday Summit from our brave and resilient Sherpa’s, the Mountain is semi-open for the rest of us to attempt up to the summit. The biggest challenge so far has…

Per Mike’s (our expedition lead guide) suggestion into keeping my acclimatization and fitness by climbing a peak, today I’d be venturing to trek up to Kala Patthar. Kala Patthar is…

As we patiently await the right weather window for us to depart into the higher camps, we are trying to recover all of our strength and rest before the intensity…

I slept well after tiring myself the day before. Today we’ll have our Oxygen training class and get at least the practice ready for that opportunity which hopefully will come…

Today was a bittersweet day, I got to celebrate Mother’s Day in front of the “Mother of the World” (The Tibetean word for Mt. Everest = Chomolungma which means Mother…

Finally a massive improvement on my health. The Ginger water and its elements had helped an overnight improvement. Since Camp 2, my nose was no longer running as bad. This…

The day was quite cold. As it’s the beginning of May, I had hoped we’d be transitioning into warmer weather, especially as the Monsoon will loom towards June. However due…

It was definitely great to sleep in normal altitude (close to 18K feet) without the freezing temperatures from Camp 2 and beyond. But my cold affecting my nose didn’t seem…