Here are some of our favourite books to give you a flavour of Nepal and your Everest Base Camp Trek and inspire your travels:
• Trekking in the Everest Region (5th Edition by Jamie McGuiness): Trailblazer Guide. A great all round guide to the Everest Base Camp trek and the people and culture of the Everest [...]

Fancy walking 1700 miles on your own?  That’s what British adventurer Ripley Davenport is facing over the next three months. His Mongolia 2010 expedition aims “to become the longest solo and unassisted walk ever completed.”
Ripley’s Mongolia trekking epic will take him across the Gobi desert, mountain ranges, through sub-zero temperatures, and wolf country. In a [...]

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 [...]

Rosanna will be back soon, having completed the Everest Base Camp Trek. She sent me her kit list a few days before her departure. It reads like equipment for an adventure - I hope it did the trick.
Kit so far:
3 pairs of walking socks
Thermals
An ice-breaker top
Walking trousers
Waterproof trousers
Walking boots
Wind proof/water proof jacket
2 beanies
2 medium layer [...]

I was surprised to find there was no pain this morning and my face was back to normal. Hurrah!!!
Overnight, Andy had slept downstairs in the dining room being unable to walk up the rickety stairs to the bedrooms. He couldn’t keep walking with the group so guides had arranged for a helicopter to evacuate him [...]

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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.

I woke up feeling so much better. This morning’s walk was gentle and was followed by a lunch of Tibetan bread (deep fried bread) and macaroni cheese; it was really pasta with ketchup and grated (partially mouldy) yak cheese, but we were all very grateful all the same.
After lunch my throat started to feel rather [...]

I had a veggie fry up this morning which was a great start to the day - even though the baked beans were strangely spicy and tangy. After the rest day, I felt much more energised and happy to walk up the mountain. The first half of the day wasn’t too difficult and we saw [...]

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 [...]

It’s morning. Already, we had grown accustomed to hearing the retching/coughing sound of the locals, where they would quite literally cough up muck from their lungs. This is due to the dust/thin air of the mountain. At first we were slightly put off by it, but now it’s a familiar sound! After a porridge breakfast, [...]

Today’s walk was a gentle amble to get used to the terrain and walking. One of the first things we went past was a Starbucks on the side of a mountain - I was disgusted!!
However, after that the sights became incredible. We passed Buddhist good luck symbols everywhere! Across the suspension bridges were colourful prayer [...]

Going to the visa centres in person if possible is so much easier than doing it online. Before my Everest Base Camp Trek I needed to get Indian and Nepali Visas.

I’ve had advice about altitude sickness from an expert in trekking holidays in the Everest region. For those thinking of an Everest Trek it’s good advice.

Kirsty at Mountain Kingdoms gave me advice related to the Everest Base Camp Trek:
we talked about the weather in Nepal, altitude sickness, kit, and food.

We will rely on the Sherpa people and thier kindness so much, but without groups like The Edmund Hillary Trust, their lifestyle will only be damaged by our visits.

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.

British explorer and endurance icon Sir Ranulph Fiennes has successfully summited Mount Everest on his third attempt.

I’ve started to research about Nepal and Everest. Dave gave me two books to read to start me off - Coronation Everest by Jan Morris, and Everest: A Trekker’s Guide, by Kev Reynolds.
Coronation Everest is a novel by a journalist for The Times who went on the first ever successful expedition to the summit [...]

I’ve just realised that I haven’t mentioned anything about how I got involved with Childreach. My boyfriend, David Milton, is the student fundraising manager for the charity. He organises the events and volunteers for every challenge event the charity offers i.e. climbing Kilimanjaro, cycling across Death Valley, hitch-hiking to Dublin etc.

Dave is going to [...]

I’ve just come back from seeing the travel nurse. It seems that I’m going to have to get a fair few injections before heading off to the Himalayas. The nurse advised me to have a diphtheria/tetanus/polio booster and a meningitis jab, and also one for Hepatitis A/Typhoid. She gave me a map of Nepal and [...]