Bucket list Trip

NeMont

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I’m 2018 I committed to shedding weight and getting back in better physical condition. I gave myself goal of spring of 2020 to go to Everest Base Camp. well in 2020 we had an issue but I went in May of 2023
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I have never gone but I've read every article I can get my hands on for 5 years. Even getting to base camp is hard. Over 17,000 ft ele. Denali is only 3000' higher in ele.
Lukla is the most dangerous landing you can fly into. Youtube has so many great videos.
My lungs couldn't get me to Base Camp. I worked at 2 Chemical companies when I was young. Oxygen is tough for me at 12,000.
Go get er Nemont !
 
Good To Hear From You NeMont!

You Hard Headed Ole Cuss!:D

Did You Crown Out?

And Did You Ever Feel Like You Were Gonna PUKE?
 
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Good To Hear From You NeMont!

You Hard Headed Ole Cuss!:D

Did You Crown Out?

And Did You Ever Feel Like You Were Gonna PUKE?
No I didn’t ever feel like puking and I have not drank much in the last 5 years.

Just work and working out and traveling around the globe for me
 
Day 4 was Namche to Deboche. 7.5 miles that included losing 1,000 feet into a river valley and then gaining nearly 2,500 climbing out of the valley into Deboche.
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Without these porters trekking would not be possible. Check out their shoes to carry between 120 and 180 lbs.
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Before Deboche there is a monastery at Tengboche that was cool
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Day 7 was Dingboche to Loboche and more elevation gain. Only 4.6 miles but The air is getting thinner but I felt great and like Obed forward to getting on the trail because then I would warm up. I acclimated just fine other than a slight headache which a few ibuprofen fixed. My O2 saturation was always 90% or higher
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From Lukla on it was advised to become a vegetarian. So I started eating like a local. Dal Bhat (lentils and rice) at least twice a day. It was a little monotonous but I never got food poisoning like most of my group
 
Clarification………. Is the “climbers base camp” considered part of “Mt Everest”.
 
Clarification………. Is the “climbers base camp” considered part of “Mt Everest”.
Everest Base Camp is either one of two base camps on either side of Mount Everest. South Base Camp is located in Nepal at an altitude of 5,364m and North Base Camp is at 5,5150m in Tibet.
 
Pretty cool adventure! Congrats.
I heard camp 4 is a trash dump. I assume the base camps are much better at getting rid of all the garbage
 
Pretty cool adventure! Congrats.
I heard camp 4 is a trash dump. I assume the base camps are much better at getting rid of all the garbage
Post Covid EBC is much cleaner. They are fairly strict about the environmental impact Base Camp had on the area. Kind of “interesting” to see porters coming out of base camp with blue barrels labeled “Human Waste”. Considering where all the trekkers did their business along the trail.

There is a reason for not being able to drink the water
 
All the towns you show pictures of along your trip.....are there roads in and out of those????

How much further is it from Basecamp to the top?
 
NeMont, you were just there right in the middle of climbing season (May). Did you get to interact with any of the hard-core climbers? What was the general mood around Base Camp?
 
All the towns you show pictures of along your trip.....are there roads in and out of those????

How much further is it from Basecamp to the top?
There are no roads, no cars, no trucks The only internal combustion engine you hear for two weeks is helicopters

The summit is at 29,034 feet. Or two miles higher than EBC.
 
NeMont, you were just there right in the middle of climbing season (May). Did you get to interact with any of the hard-core climbers? What was the general mood around Base Camp?
I met a couple of team members. One father and son from Mexico City. Their summit bid came up 300 feet short due to running out of bottled oxygen
 
I Know I'm Good For 13.5!

But I'm Not Sure After That!:D

What's 17 Feel Like NeMont?

No F'N Wheelers Huh?

Sounds Like My Kinda Place!
 
Congratulation NeMont. Nothing about your trip to.base camp looked easy. Based on the up and down stuff, it’s hard to imagine the walk back out is going to be a tip toe through the tulips either.

Be safe. Thanks for sharing the adventure.
 
Not funny Lumpy.....you could easily twist an ankle hauling 40' of 5x5 tube steel up Mount Everest.....should have been a target rich environment.....
 
Yep can’t argue that homer. Two at a time, no less. It’s incredible how tough humans and the human spirit is. Those people are almost hard to believe…… based on our current American life style.
 
Yep can’t argue that homer. Two at a time, no less. It’s incredible how tough humans and the human spirit is. Those people are almost hard to believe…… based on our current American life style.
2 x20 = 40.....lol
 
I Know I'm Good For 13.5!

But I'm Not Sure After That!:D

What's 17 Feel Like NeMont?

No F'N Wheelers Huh?

Sounds Like My Kinda Place!
After 15,500 it becomes a challenge. I seemed to do fine but above that level is when we started seeing people being evacuated due to altitude sickness.
 
NeMont, is a permit required to go to base camp?
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 accommodations at the end of each day. Our guides knew the best places to stay and eat too. We always had rooms but many people scrambled every night to find a place.
 
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. Like I said I tried Yak steak in Kathmandu it was very good but after that I didn’t eat meat until I got to Paris

Keep them coming.
What did you do to train for this trip?
Lik2HNT
I did Mountain Tough for over 4 years. 5 days a week. I was worried because I spent all winter at sea level in Mazatlan, Mexico. I came back from Mazatlan on April 15th left for Nepal on April 28th.

I did just fine with the altitude and never felt sore or like my body was really tired.

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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.

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Khumjung sits at over 12,000 feet but to get there you have drop down to 9,500 feet to cross a river then go up over a glacial moraine at 12,700 to drop into the town
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Everest in my rear view mirror. Got this trip checked of my list.
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Thanks for following along. I wish my words and pics could fully convey the beauty of Nepal’s Khumbu region. This trip was more than I had even hoped for. I am still in Paris until June 5th eating too much bread and cheese but I planned to rest here after Nepal.

Nemont
 
The problem is that I wouldn’t even allow you to eat it after seeing how it was handled.

LMAO NeMont!

But I Hear You!

I'm The Same Way!

I Guess You Can't Really Hurt A SHERPA!
 
Well NeMont!

When I First Seen This Thread I Figured You Were Gonna Try It!

I've Thought About This Alot In My Life & Maybe At Our Age We Waited A Little Too Long!

But hey!

We Could Probably Make The NEWS If We Tried It!:D
 
There are no roads, no cars, no trucks The only internal combustion engine you hear for two weeks is helicopters

The summit is at 29,034 feet. Or two miles higher than EBC.

Jesus so all those towns were built without heavy equipment or vehicles to bring supplies in???? Everything brought I on their backs?

Damn that last 2 miles....oophhh
 
I'll be pulling the 5th wheel up through Utah and back down through Arizona over the next 10 days. Does that count for anything?
 
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
Are you traveling alone Nemont?….looks like a great adventure.
 

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