One festival that is certainly worth including on your trip to Everest Base Camp, is the Mani Rimdu Festival.  A festival that is celebrated annually in accordance with the Tibetan lunar calendar, and the completion of the harvest, Mani Rimdu brings together villagers from many areas of the Khumbu region, which lies to the Nepalese [...]

Arriving at Everest Base Camp tomorrow is a charity expedition aiming to raise money for
the support of people with severe learning disablities by cooking.
Yes, that wasn’t a mis-type: a chef is currently moving along the Everest Base Camp Trek
armed with the ingredients of a meal she intends to prepare for her team at an altitude [...]

This amazing photo was taken by mckaysavage1 and posted on Flickr. Many thanks.
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This is the view from Kala Pattar: the sharp peak of Nuptse and Everest rising mistily behind it.

The sky was amazing this morning! The clouds that had covered the village the day before had completely lifted and we could see snow-capped mountains all around us. We had no idea we were surrounded by such beauty. First up was a gentle walk up to Gorak Shep. On the way we passed glaciers and [...]

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This is a video I found showing what we can expect Rosanna and David to be seeing and doing between Day 8 and Day 10 of the Everest Base Camp trek.

This video was posted on Youtube by wwwcelticvideocom. I quite like the narrator’s accent.

After a week, Rosanna and David and all the others on the Childreach trek will be well on their way now. Everest Base Camp Trek routes. The latter stages show the Kala Pattar variation of the Everest trek where you climb to the summit of the neighbouring mountain to overlook Everest base camp. I just [...]

Apparently, she has to deal with “hundreds of trekkers that fall ill on the trek to Everest Base Camp”. That could be me!

I’m getting quite excited about the prospect of tackling the massive mountain, but I’m also rather worried about my lack of climbing experience! This year, so far I’ve only climbed one mountain in the Lake District with Dave…it was an interesting experience.

I’ve found that there are some songs/artists/genres that help my training more than others. Anything lethargic and slow, makes you feel lethargic and slow - so that’s definitely off the list, i.e. Coldplay, who I love, but just don’t do it for me whilst skipping!

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Here are a few more additions to my training playlist:
 

I’m Sitting [...]

Skipping up Everest: When I first started skipping each morning, I thought it would be really easy as I used to do it all the time for what seemed like hours as a kid. However, it is really one of the hardest kinds of exercise I’m doing – way more exhausting than jogging!

When we were told we had to wait until 2 o’clock for our shift at Bag Packing we didn’t know what to do. With four hours to kill, some members of the group couldn’t be bothered to wait around, so I didn’t get a chance to meet them properly, but three others from the group [...]

A nice short video here - it does exactly what it says on the . . . vid.
Look at that view!