Episode 067: Fixing A Hole
Posted on Jan 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Episode 067: Fixing A Hole
I Feel Deflated. So, we left this morning to head out of Kathmandu and towards the town of Pokara. We didn’t get very far before a flat tire necessitated the need to pull over. I haven’t spent very much time outside of Thamel, the tourist district in Kathmandu. It’s very different in the rest of the city. No...
Episode 066: Sew Kathmandu
Posted on Jan 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Episode 066: Sew Kathmandu
A Stitch In Time Saves $900. One of the things I was looking forward to on this trip was to employ the skills of a Nepali embroiderer to help me create “Rest of Everest” t-shirts. I was so impressed with the 2003 expedition patches that I knew I had to have podcast shirts made in Kathmandu. Besides, having the...
Episode 065: Close Call…
Posted on Dec 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 065: Close Call…
Monkey Business At The Monkey Temple. As Scott and I were walking around Swayambudnath I suddenly saw a familiar face. It was Kumar, the shopkeeper Ben and I met back in 2003. This man is such a character and makes you feel like you’re the most important person in the world when you speak with him. “Oh, my God how...
Episode 064: Sat Phones and Monkeys
Posted on Dec 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 064: Sat Phones and Monkeys
A Tikka Is Not Just A Headlamp. When you first arrive in Kathmandu and settle into your hotel, the best thing to do is to get up on the roof and look around. That’s exactly what Scott and I did today. We spent a good deal of the morning up on the roof of Hotel Marshyangdi looking out over the seemingly endless sprawl of...
Episode 063: A New Beginning
Posted on Dec 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 063: A New Beginning
The First Step Of The Journey Is Always Boring. After months of saving, planning and panicking, I’m back on the other side of the planet in Kathmandu. I just love Kathmandu and it’s a good thing, too. It just takes so long to get here! Scott and I left Denver on Sunday and didn’t arrive in Nepal until...
Episode 062: Tibet 2007 Series Introduction
Posted on Dec 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 062: Tibet 2007 Series Introduction
Back To Everest. Hello everyone and welcome to the Tibet 2007 series of The Rest of Everest video podcast. I wanted to take the time here in this episode to provide a bit of an overview of what to expect from this new series, but first I think it’s best to look back to see where we’ve come from. I started The Rest...
Bonus Episode: Savage Sister, Part 2
Posted on Nov 11, 2007 | Comments Off on Bonus Episode: Savage Sister, Part 2
Catching Up With Ben. The Rest of Everest returns this week with part 2 of a 2 part trip overview from Ben Clark and Josh Butson’s climbing expedition to far Western Sichuan Province in China. Many of you may well remember the bonus series I produced last year from this same valley. Ben and Josh returned to try to climb...
Bonus Episode: Savage Sister, Part 1
Posted on Nov 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Bonus Episode: Savage Sister, Part 1
Catching Up With Ben. The Rest of Everest returns this week with part 1 of a 2 part trip overview from Ben Clark and Josh Butson’s climbing expedition to far Western Sichuan Province in China. Many of you may well remember the bonus series I produced last year from this same valley. Ben and Josh returned to try to climb...
Episode 061: The End Of The Expedition
Posted on Sep 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 061: The End Of The Expedition
One Door Closes, Another Opens. The last two days in Kathmandu were some of the most exciting of my life. It was a pleasure to get back to a bathroom with a flushing toilet! Oh, simple pleasures. Really, though, it was amazing to be back in KTM with a successful Everest summit under our team’s collective belt. Ben and I...
Episode 060: Packing Up And Shipping Out
Posted on Sep 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 060: Packing Up And Shipping Out
Goodbye Everest. Goodbye Chomolungma. We all woke up early this morning to finish packing and strike the camp. It’s time to leave and I have to admit I’m totally ready. Everest has changed my life. No question about it. I am a different person today than I was when we arrived on April 12. I am so grateful for all...
Episode 059: Bartertown
Posted on Sep 13, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 059: Bartertown
Getting Ready For Goodbye. This was the last afternoon and Ben and I took advantage of it by visiting the Tibetan village at the North end of Base Camp. The little shanty village is totally temporary. It get’s set up by various Tibetan entrepreneurs in response to a need driven by the tourist traffic here at Everest. The...
Bonus Episode: Alan Arnette
Posted on Sep 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Bonus Episode: Alan Arnette
Memories Are Everything. As promised here is an introduction video for my friend Alan Arnette. Alan will be climbing Everest Spring 2008 to raise money for Alzheimer’s research. In fact, Alan is trying to raise $100,000 towards a cure for the disease and is climbing several different mountains on the way to Everest this...
Episode 058: Puppies and Lamas
Posted on Aug 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 058: Puppies and Lamas
Little Black Book. Later this morning after breakfast I headed back to my tent and found a couple of guests standing outside my door. Puppies! It’s funny, I spend most of my time at home around dogs, but never in a million years did I expect to come across two pups here at 17,000 feet next to Everest! I’m guessing...
Episode 057: Unsung Heros
Posted on Aug 22, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 057: Unsung Heros
Let Them Have Cake! I spent the morning today doing what I should have done a while ago: filming Dawa and Pempa as the cooked for us. This morning’s footage was great. Dawa even baked a cake at 17,000 feet. I guess I just haven’t wanted to get in their way, but now that we’re all friends I know that they...
Episode 056: The Last Hurrah
Posted on Aug 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 056: The Last Hurrah
Off With Their Beards! This afternoon our camp was buzzing with activity. Quite literally, actually! See, I seem to have been the only person at BC to have brought an electric shaver with me…like everything else around here, it’s become a shared resource. The guys from the Northern Ireland team came over and spent...
Episode 055: The Young Ones
Posted on Aug 8, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 055: The Young Ones
“Well, We Got This Done.” This morning, Jess Roskelley visited our camp. He’s a friend of Ben’s and now the youngest American to summit Everest. Jess was climbing with his father, John Roskelley, and they summitted early in the morning the day before Ben made the summit. In addition to holding claim to...
Episode 054: A Summit A Day Keeps The Doctor In Pay
Posted on Aug 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 054: A Summit A Day Keeps The Doctor In Pay
Chronic Freezing. After we had caught up with Ben for a bit, Doktor Dima from the St Petersburg team came over for an examination of Ben’s feet. On summit day, Ben had tied one of his boots just ever so slightly too tight and that’s all it took to cause some frostbite damage. While he was climbing, the only...
Episode 053: …Safe and Sound
Posted on Jul 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 053: …Safe and Sound
Theft In The Death Zone. The evening keeps getting more interesting. Now that Ben’s back, we have had the pleasure of listening to his summit day account. Man, it was epic. The weather on the 22nd of May was not the kind of weather you dream of summitting Everest in. I mean, come on. You don’t dream for years of...
Episode 052: Back Home…
Posted on Jul 11, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 052: Back Home…
I Didn’t Die At Base Camp. It has been an intense few days out here. Ben is safe at ABC and resting up for the long walk home to BC. Last night I was invited to a late dinner by my Indian friends from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute Expedition. You cannot believe the true sense of celebration that these folks...
Episode 051: A Different Atmosphere
Posted on Jul 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Episode 051: A Different Atmosphere
These Guys Know How To Party. Immediately after finishing my radio conversation with Ben, I grabbed the camera and headed off to tell all of my friends the good news. Living here for almost two months now, I’ve got a lot of friends! It’s hard to really put into words what it feels like to be at base camp now that...
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