Recent content by NeMont

https://www.gsam.com/content/gsam/us/en/advisors/campaigns/etf-future-planet.html I have become a huge user of ETFs for things like this. I bought an oil etf the day after Biden was elected sold it in April 23 with a 345% gain. I am holding an ETF that is short the US dollar. It is longer...

Got through a few more pics

Ummm if you count turds and toilet paper piles as climber trash

Not that could tell. The guides told me houses like that were used as stops along the trail before the trekking/climbing industry really started

I did. Nothing of interest in there

I did bring home a rock from base camp

Getting through some of the thousands of pics I took.

I don’t have a wife anymore.

To Nepal I traveled solo but on the way home I met my girlfriend in Paris and spent two weeks there. I just got back to Montana today. Meeting my kids in Bozeman today and then on to Glasgow tomorrow

Well where to start. I have working remotely a lot. Spent most of the winter in Mexico Enjoying the beach, the seafood and the lack of snow. I have traveled all over the country and the world it seems. So just enjoying my life.

Yep all that is brought in by porters or yak and mule train. Maybe some helicopters but those are expensive

Descending was another story. I found going down was often worse than going up. Also we went a slightly different route back to Lukla and the elevation loss and gain became kind of a mental game to just ignore going uphill even though you are going to end up lower. Khumjung sits at over 12,000...

The problem is that I wouldn’t even allow you to eat it after seeing how it was handled. On the way down from EBC the tea house in Pheriche had Yak steaks on the menu. I chose to not partake but three people did. All got food poisoning. I was very strict in my diet and never had an issue...

No and you can go unguided if you want to. The one thing that is a safety issue is that guides can call in air evacuation if needed. There were many people going without guides. You can hire a private porter to carry your stuff too which I saw many doing. The real bottle neck is in...

Not clean or refrigerated