Travel Insurance for Everest Base Camp
When doing any overseas trip you should invest in travel insurance, this is to cover you for a whole range of incidents that may occur on your trip. When trekking over 5000m, you need to make sure that either your…
Should I buy new hiking boots?
I’ve been trying to decide whether I should replace my hiking boots which were a fairly cheap buy for when I did Kilimanjaro. At the time I didn’t want to splash out on a pair that I may not use…
Worry No.3 – Getting Sick
Been a long time since I’ve thought of another worry for when I do Everest Base Camp, this one ‘getting sick’ came courtesy of recently reading a post from Sarah who runs the popular travel blog Sarah Somewhere on when…
Scafell Pike – Englands highest mountain
On Sunday I hiked up a very snowy Scafell Pike in the Lake District with a small group of 13 men and women organised by Climb Your Mountain (the charity I’m also doing Everest Base Camp with). We arrived on…
Worry No.2 – Leaving the kids
Following on from my first post, here’s the 2nd thing that’s worrying me about doing Everest Base Camp….leaving my boys for approx. 17 days! The longest I’ve been away from them previously was when I did Kilimanjaro 2 years ago…
Worry No.1 – Lukla Airport – Nepal
There’s a number of things that are worrying me about doing Everest Base Camp, i’m going to be writing about them as they pop into my head. Here’s the first and the one I will be experiencing within the first…
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