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Hello Friends, Adventures, couch potatoes, I depart in 3 days for my 30th season in the Himalaya. It is an exciting season with a full tri...

Hello Everyone, The group has finished the trek and we are now at Namche. I will have more post after I return to Kathmandu covering the jo...

We are all very excited to fly to the trail head. The flight to Lukla (trail head) is 45 minutes and culminates in a stomach churning landi...

Security is an illusiona! Apparently so upon entering the Kathmandu airport. First you have the landing. It is known to be one of the har...

We started off at 8 p.m. from 16000 feet and were taking a trail that is used mostly by locals and a handful of trekkers.  I had just spoke...

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...