Tag Archives | mountain climbing

What A Schlep! Getting to Tibet Part 3

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Mountain Climbing

This is part 3 in a series of articles I wrote on the experience of getting from Kathmandu to Advanced Base Camp of the mountain Cho Oyu in Southern Tibet.  Climbing the mountain was the objective of course, but the story of the journey to the base of the mountain reminds us to enjoy the [...]

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Talk About a Schlep!!

Written By Topics: Adventure Couple Favs

Getting There is Half the Fun – Part 1 Last year, I decided to go to Nepal and Tibet to join my husband’s climbing team to summit Cho Oyu, the 6th highest peak in the world.  And while the story of climbing the mountain is amazing, what’s just as amazing is the story of simply [...]

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Over the Edge of the World

Written By Topics: Adventure Couple Favs
climbing mt everest

Over the Edge of the World – Over the Edge of the World is the title of a magnificent book about Magellan discovering the straits which bear his name.  I believe this is also where the explorers of the world find their place and their peace, at the literal edge of human existence.  There is [...]

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Last Flight Out- Changing Adventure with the Season

Written By Topics: Adventure Couple Favs

Last Flight Out Last flight out. To me the connotation has nothing to do with airplanes, it has to do with being engaged till the last note of the concert, getting the most of the every day, sucking the marrow out of life as Henry D. Thoreaux would say. Sometimes, on the last flight out [...]

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Ziplining in Fiji

Written By Topics: Cool Places

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Adventure Manifesto

Written By Topics: Adventure Couple Favs, Life by Design

Adventure is an insatiable thirst for knowing the world. It’s not just a thing. Adventure is a way of thinking, a way of being, a way of doing that ultimately manifests itself as a way of living. Adventure thrills us, enlightens us, strengthens and stretches us, inspires us, answers our curiosity, it freaks us out [...]

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