During one of the very few slow days in Dhunche, Nepal, Martin and I snuck away from the research to go for a run. We did an easy 45 minutes on the flat-ish beginning of the Gosainkunda Trail. It was a good way to stretch out the legs and test out my Inov-8 X-Talon shoes and new Patagonia[…]

On August 12, 2011, I climbed the N. Arete of Wedge Mountain in a day by myself. Without realizing it, exactly one year later, Sarah and I set off to climb the same route. We got an early start from Squamish and left the trailhead around 6:30am. It took just two hours to get up[…]

So far my updates have just been about events of the trip but now that we are back in Canada, it is important to mention the scientific purpose and goals of the trip. The primary focus is to examine factors that determine susceptibility to acute mountain sickness (AMS) in Nepali Hindu religious pilgrims. These pilgrims[…]

On our last day in Kathmandu, the team is wrapping up loose ends and doing our final souvenir hunting. We are very happy with our research and even happier to be headed back to Canada. I am definitely looking forward to fresh fruit, shower water that smells like nothing and milk. I think it will[…]

Our second week in Nepal started on July 25th with a 6 hour drive to a small one hut village called Ramche. After Ramche, the road has been broken into small sections by several landslides so from here we had to hike the majority of the way. Lining up to cross the landslide. The second[…]