Ending our Everest Base Camp Trek Things don't always turn out the way you plan.

Day 9-10 - It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Has To Be Medevac-ed Off The Mountain Aka: This is why you buy trip insurance Aka: And...

Day 8 - WE MADE IT TO BASE CAMP To say it was just in the nick of time is not an exaggeration. Both teenagers were struggling with...

Day 7 - Stuck in Mile 19 Hike to Lobuche - 16,236 feet Are you afraid of heights at all? Ever tell yourself not to look down over a ledge...

Day 6 - Merry Christmas from the Himalayas! Went up to a small overlook at around 15,000 feet then came back down to Pheriche (14k) for...

Day 5 - Midnight panic attacks Had a complete and utter breakdown in the middle of the night... It’s cold here at night, probably in the...

Day 4 - Lessons in Parenting Everything about this hike is about the layers. Clothing: we had to be prepared for everything from -5 to 70...

Hike high, rest low. Second day in Namche. Today was an acclimatization day, so we went up 1300 feet (took about two hours) to a nearby...

Today was just utterly exhausting. Seven hours of uphill hiking from the small village of Phakding to the much larger village of Namche...

So....yeah. That was beautiful but pretty daggone scary, landing straight into a mountain on a runway about the size of a postage stamp....