Everest Trek 2009 Wrap-Up
The Highest Photography Workshop In The World. Jon is back from Nepal and is joined by Chris Marquardt to discuss the trek and photography workshop. You can find Chris on his excellent photography...
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The Highest Photography Workshop In The World. As expected, here is a sort of “best of” montage of footage from the 2009 Photography workshop. I hope this episode gets everyone excited about season 4...
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A View Of The Trek Through A Differnt Lens. No Baruntse Expedition overview this week. Instead, here’s another look at the Everest Trek 2009 Workshop couretest of Chris Marquardt of Tips From The Top...
View ArticleEpisode 114: Season 4 Introduction, The Highest Photography Workshop In The...
Back To Everest…Again. The highly anticipated season 4 of The Rest of Everest begins this week with a nice overview of what to expect from the Everest Trek 2009 episodes. It’s always exciting to begin...
View ArticleEpisode 115: Kathmandu: Exactly The Same…But Different
The Team Arrives. For the past 3 years I’ve been trying to show a more complete picture of what it’s like to visit Everest and the Himalayas. Now, with a bunch of my audience members standing around me...
View ArticleEpisode 116: Landing In Lukla
The Gold Standard? We landed in Lukla, Nepal this morning and everyone was looking forward to seeing-and experiencing-the famous Lukla Airstrip. A quick flight to Lukla is the first stage of most treks...
View ArticleEpisode 117: No Trains, No Planes, No Automobiles
Too Much Information. We walked out of Lukla and left the infrastructure of modern life behind us. From here on out, there will be no roads and the only trains will be yak trains. How cool is that? At...
View ArticleEpisode 118: Photos Just Don’t Do It…
“In Person” Is Important. The podcast has been a great tool to get people around the world familiar with the Everest region. But this morning it became clear there’s no competition for personal...
View ArticleEpisode 119: Stairmasters
Happily Exhausted. The rest of the day’s trekking has finally brought us to the town of Namche Bazaar. Namche is fairly well-known since it serves as the gateway to the Everest region here in Nepal....
View ArticleEpisode 120: Namche Bazaar
Wolfes And Wildcards. We woke up to our first morning here in Namche and another stunning view right out of our tents. In fact the view is so beautiful it makes yesterday’s difficulties fade away to a...
View ArticleEpisode 121: Sat Phone Conundrum
What We’ve Got Here Is A Failure To Communicate. Since today was a rest day here in Namche, I decided to test our satellite gear. It doesn’t work. Whenever I visit Everest I always bring some...
View ArticleEpisode 122: Nice Lens, Baby
Photo Geeks. We left Namche this morning and resumed our upward progress. Along the way Chris broke out his Lens Baby and we had a blast shooting video with it. As Chris has always said, one of the...
View ArticleEpisode 123: Tengboche
The Wheel Keeps On Turning. We did make it to the little town of Tengboche last night and took a tour of the monastery there this morning. It really is wonderful to get to spend some time in a...
View ArticleEpisode 124: A Change In The Air
A Familiar Face. The rest of the hike to Dingboche had a little bit of everything. We enjoyed trees, tundra, flat sections, steep sections, hot temps, cold temps, sunshine and snow! It was one of those...
View ArticleEpisode 125: A Sherpa Sense Of Humor
Yes, Definitely A Snow Man. We woke up this morning in Dingboche to a rest day and John Fera’s birthday. We had already planned to throw a small party for John but our staff had something more...
View ArticleEpisode 126: A Death In The Family
An Absolute Tragedy. While on an acclimatization hike today a message came down from base camp containing the worst news possible. Tendi’s brother has died higher up on Everest. Tendi is our pacesetter...
View ArticleEpisode 127: You CAN Hear Me Now
No Tea, No SMS. We finally got the sat phone working today but not without help and an important lesson learned from another Dingboche proprietor. Sonam and I needed to get in touch with Babu back in...
View ArticleEpisode 128: Immortalized In Nepal
Happy Birthday Magan! Believe it or not, the weather cleared last night and we were able to continue our journey towards Base Camp. We figure it was Nature’s birthday gift to Megan as today is actually...
View ArticleEpisode 129: The Ultimate Sacrifice
Proof That Climbing Everest WIll Always Be Dangerous. As we continued towards Lobuche today we finally made it to the Everest Memorial, a collection of cairns dedicated to those who have lost their...
View ArticleEpisode 130: A True Living Legend
Would You Like Some Yak Cheese To Go With That Whine? We all woke up very early today, because we need to maximize our trekking time. Today, some of us will make it to base camp. It’s a very exciting...
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