Age 58, 5 feet 11inches 220.BTW- what is your age, height and weight ?
I'm 64, 6' and 233. I want to lose about 30 lbs . I guess it was 1993 I hot to 182 but gained back 20 lbs the first 6 months.Age 58, 5 feet 11inches 220.
No I didn’t ever feel like puking and I have not drank much in the last 5 years.Good To Hear From You NeMont!
You Hard Headed Ole Cuss!
Did You Crown Out?
And Did You Ever Feel Like You Were Gonna PUKE?
And never Sherpa an estimate.Never Under Estimate a SHERPA!
Can't you wait. Bess you are always so inpatient, just enjoy the wonderful adventure.Hey NeMont?
I Meant:
Did You Crown Out/Reach The Top?
No went to base camp and back.people die when the go to the top.Never Under Estimate a SHERPA!
Can't you wait. Bess you are always so inpatient, just enjoy the wonderful adventure.
Yeah in Kathmandu but that was before I saw their butcher shopsSo NeMont?
Have You tried a Yak Steak Yet?
Generally it got between 10 and 15 Fahrenheit at night. Some days colder and day time temps were anywhere from 30 to 50. Lots of putting on and taking off layersNemont what was the temperature range during this adventure?
For the most part you look to have at least a jacket on.
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.Clarification………. Is the “climbers base camp” considered part of “Mt Everest”.
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.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
Nope I turned around at Base CampSo Are You Going To The Top NeMont?
There are no roads, no cars, no trucks The only internal combustion engine you hear for two weeks is helicoptersAll 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?
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 oxygenNeMont, 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?
2 x20 = 40.....lolYep 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.
This happened a day or two ago.
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.I Know I'm Good For 13.5!
But I'm Not Sure After That!
What's 17 Feel Like NeMont?
No F'N Wheelers Huh?
Sounds Like My Kinda Place!
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.NeMont, is a permit required to go to base camp?
Not clean or refrigerated
Lik2HNTKeep them coming.
What did you do to train for this trip?
Hey BeBop!, do you know why they don't have refrigeration?Well!
You Might Not Need it To Be Refrigerated!
At an average price of about $50,000 to go guided to the top I'd have to do a DIY solo climb. A sleeping bag, a GPS, a canteen, and a couple sandwiches is all I need.
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.
Yep all that is brought in by porters or yak and mule train. Maybe some helicopters but those are expensiveJesus 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
Well where to start.So NeMont?
What Else You Been Up To?
I realize what a poor planner I've been.....Between you and Mozzy I realize I am an Underachiever.
Thanks for sharing, Great Read!
noI'll be pulling the 5th wheel up through Utah and back down through Arizona over the next 10 days. Does that count for anything?
Compared to trekking to Everest Base Camp that's like saying you went 30 minutes without taking a piss. No, it doesn't count for much.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?
Compared to trekking to Everest Base Camp that's like saying you went 30 minutes without taking a piss. No, it doesn't count for much.
Are you traveling alone Nemont?….looks like a great adventure.
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