Tag: journey
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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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Starting the Arctic Season
Another long travel day survived on the way north. Set out at 6am to fly out of Santiago over to Buenos Aires. Nice empty flight for the first leg. Then the usual run around Buenos Aires airport to get back on the plane for the second leg to Amsterdam. Plane was super full and sleep…
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Day 5 Flying to Nepal via India 8th April
Day 5 of our journey to Nepal to hike the EBC. Today we are on our way to Nepal. We slept in a bit this morning so had to rush pack up the last of our stuff and checkout. We then headed over to our favourite pub for our last possibly familiar meal. Then it…
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Day 8 Kathmandu to Lukla attempt
Day 8 and unfortunately it was a bit of a bust. Today was the day we were supposed to fly up to Lukla airport on the mountain. It is considered one of the most dangerous airports in the world due to extremely short 527-meter runway,12% steep gradient, and high altitude (9,334 ft). Unfortunately all this…
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Day 9 Kathmandu to Lukla to Phakding
Day 9 – what a long day! We got up at 4:30 again to head to the airport to take our helicopter flight. We had been told it was leaving at 6:45 but once we got there it was clear that wasn’t happening. They weighed us and our bags then checked us in. Then we…
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Day 10 – Phakding to Monjo Everest Basecamp Camp Trek
Day 10 of our EBC trek. We slept in a little today after a long week and mum not feeling so well last night. I woke up feeling good but after our altitude sickness medication I had the weirdest sensation in my hands. It felt like my blood was fizzing or boiling in my fingertips…
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Day 12 Everest Basecamp Trek Acclimatization Day
Day 12 of our attempt to hike the EBC. We stayed in the famous Namche Bazaar last night and today it was an acclimatization day. Which means that we go to hike at a higher altitude and then come back down to encourage our bodies to adapt to the height. Today we hiked out to…
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Day 15 Dingboche Acclimatization Hike
Day 15 of our attempt to hike the EBC. Apologies I didn’t post yesterday. I was feeling quite ill in the evening which I will tell you about. Thankyou so much for all the love and support it has been overwhelming. So yesterday started ok. I felt a bit tired but otherwise willing to do…
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Day 16 Dingboche to Thukla – Everest Base Camp
So day 16 of our attempt at the Everest Base Camp trek and hopefully they get a bit more positive after this one. After having a raging fever all night I woke up completely wrecked. I haven’t had a fever like that since Covid. I woke up dehydrated, sleep deprived, dizzy and weak facing a…
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Day 17 Thukla to Leboche – Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 17 of our attempt to trek the EBC. It would be another rather short hop from Thukla to Lobuche which would be our final stop before making our attempt for Basecamp. It would be about 3 km trek over a gentle gradient gaining another 300 metres to have us at 4900 metres altitude. I…