“Mr. Lama, I think we might need the helicopter.”
Not a typical request for a Thursday afternoon, but I wasn’t having a typical workday. I was 12,000 feet high in the Nepalese Himalayas, and I couldn’t see more than 20 feet in front of me.
The hard part was over. We’d completed six days of trekking on the Everest Base Camp Trail and were returning to manageable altitudes, but the weather—notoriously fickle in a region where mountains have their own jet stream—was starting to cause issues. We w...
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