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A Sunrise Meeting with Mount Everest
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A Sunrise Meeting with Mount Everest

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A Sunrise Meeting with Mount Everest

This is day 19 of my 24 day trek through the Khumbu region of Nepal -> View all posts for this trek My alarm went off at 4:30am but I hadn't really been sleeping anyway. Sleep is hard to come by at over 5000 metres (16500ft) in altitude and I had been in and out of [...]

By Dean Wickham|2018-06-13T10:56:51+10:00November 10th, 2016|Adventure, Asia, Destinations, Featured, Inspiration, Nepal|8 Comments

Going face to face with Mount Everest
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Going face to face with Mount Everest

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Going face to face with Mount Everest

I awoke in the village of Lobuche, Nepal, on a freezing morning. Overnight the temperature had apparently dropped down to under -15 degrees Celcius. Although I had been snowed in two days before in Dingboche, the weather was now perfect. Clear blue skies let the morning sun shine down on the ice capped mountains towering [...]

By Dean Wickham|2012-12-06T20:58:10+10:00August 13th, 2011|Adventure, Asia, Destinations, Featured, Nepal|27 Comments