Tag: altitude
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Jan Mayen 16th June 2026
We woke up this morning with a lot of trepidation to find the island completely lost in fog. We had been planning and studying the weather for days to see if we might get a chance to land. Jan Mayen is a remote volcanic island 500km of the east coast of Greenland administered by Norway.…
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Day 14 Tangboche to Dingboche Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 14 of our attempt to hike the EBC. Today was a rough day for me personally. It started with mum waking me up at 5am telling she was done and wasn’t going hike any further. She couldn’t eat the food and she was done. Well after a little bit of cajoling and taking a…
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Day 19 Gorak Shep to Pheriche – Everest Base Camp Trek
Day 19 of our attempt at Everest Base Camp trek. Today was our day to start making our way back down the mountain. We are quite ready as some of the altitude sickness symptoms such as lack of appetite have become quite annoying. The plan was to hike down 11km losing approximately 1000 metres of…
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Day 20 Pheriche to Phortse – Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 20 of our attempt to hike to EBC and sadly my last day of hiking. Our goal was to hit another 11km back down the mountain from Pheriche to Phortse losing about another 1000 metres in elevation to about 3800. Once again we started with amazing weather. The plan was to take the high…