Month: September 2018

(Click here to read part 1!) It is the final days of the trek to Everest Base Camp, Nepal. During the trek to Lobuche, I was listening to an album that reminded me of someone special to me in Moscow, and I was surprised to find myself crying and overwhelmed by emotions. My friend Kayti [...]

I said in my last post that my motivation for completing the Everest Base Camp trek changed mid-way through. By 2015, my life was, to put it mildly, a train wreck. Without going into any details, I had hit a bottom and become utterly desperate, spiritually and emotionally bankrupt. At some point during the trek [...]

It's curious to me how my motivation for trekking to Everest Base Camp in June of 2018 changed as I was doing it. When I first learned that such a thing is possible (in October 2017, thanks to Facebook pictures by my friend Ben in Kathmandu -- hi, Ben!), I thought, "Holy cow!! That's awesome! I [...]