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Ama Dablam is always quite a visual experience. Its name means "mothers charm box". Locals believe it looks like the prayer box ...

One of the heighlights of our journey was experiencing a Lammergeier. This is a bird that is the size of a small Cesna. No joke this photo...

Hello Everyone, Sorry we have not been able to post throughout the journey. We had technical difficulties. Basically the dashboard of my bl...

Will she live or will she die? This is the question that came to mind. I was on the 4th floor of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance waiting ...

Just getting ready for my 28th season in the Himalaya. We depart October 9th. This season I am not leading a climbing expedition. I wante...

Crossing the glacier with our route in the backround.

David on the endless boulder fields on the approach to the climb

We acclimatized on a hike called Gokyo Ri

The high remote trail that only locals travel.  Urkin Sherpa showed us this high and wild trail.  

Urkin took us on two great adventures.  He is a great friend and always takes us in like family.

We wandered some back roads in Kathmandu before the climb and found this amazing monastary.   It had a do not enter sign but these young mon...

Carter receiving a blessing from a monk at the Monkey Temple.  David and I received a blessing also.  At one point the monk wanted us to dri...

Preparing a first aid kit in Seattle prior to the trip.  We can perform minor surgery with this kit.

I had to pee bad.  I had been holding it for way to long.  The day before I had arrived at the Lukla airport with 2 duffle bags of climbing ...

On May 15th we (Matt Fioretti, David Frisk, Carter Nelson, Peter Carey, and assistant guide John Miller) had a leasurely morning waking at c...

What would I do with out Santosh at the Namche Cyber Cafe? I am still learning how to send email! Thank You Santosh.

We moved to Camp I and begin our alpine style ascent. Everyone is well.

Arrived Base Camp on May 10th. What a heavenly place. According to the Nepal Mountaineering Association only 16 climbers have visited the...

Ramesh presented us the pork yesterday. It was fried. Behind Ramesh I could see Urkin Sherpa communicate with his eyes, "please dont ...

We have arrived in Khunde. Urkin Sherpa showed us a local trail that was nothing short of a National Geographic adventure. The trail was p...