Everest for Sahel 2013 November Update
Hi Everyone! Sorry for not updating this site for quite some time but I have been busy, busy. When I came back from Manaslu, I hardly had time to recover […]
Category Archives: Trips
Climbing Manaslu – Some Afterthoughts 09 October 2012
I am back in Rome, back at work. It is a different reality than I was in last week. People are hovering in the coffee line up, walking by, busy […]
Back in Kathmandu
Oct 4 Thank you to all of my friends, family, and readers of my blog for your support during my Manaslu expedition. Climbing Manaslu was probably the hardest but most […]
Final Manaslu Dispatches
October 3 2012 Edita called this morning. The helicopter could not come to Sama Goan because of bad weather. They will try tomorrow. I will hand the reins of this […]
Everest for Sahel Preparation: Manaslu Expedition In Progress
(Photo by Altitude Junkies) September 22 Just in – Arrived at Camp 2 OK at 6300 meters! see tracker here http://fms.ws/9l43s/28.57519N/84.55788E September 21 To camp 1 ok, looks like next to […]
Getting ready for Mt Everest 2013– Next Step – Manaslu (8,163mtr) September 2012
One Step at a Time My first big step was when I climbed my first peak of over 5,000 meters, Kilimanjaro in 2010. Since then, I summited other peaks, such […]
Staffer Aims to Conquer World’s Highest Peaks
Staffer Aims to Conquer World’s Highest Peaks Looking up at Mount Cho Oyu from the Advanced Base Camp Photo Courtesy of Edita Nichols When Rome-based Emergency Simulation Training Consultant Edita […]
Cho Oyu Expedition (27 Aug – 08 Oct 2011)
“Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain… Climbing at altitude is like hitting […]
Every Dal-Bhat Taste Different: trekking and climbing in the Everest Region
My trekking/climbing expedition in Nepal on the 5th of April started not according to what I thought was planned. There was no flying to Lukla from Kathmandu. We got on […]
On my way to Kathmandu
I left Rome in rush, just barely finished packing. I really didn’t have time to think through of what’s ahead of me. Taking care of all details took away all […]
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