By: Malcom
Wonderful Yak photo!! This is a great few blog posts. Enjoying them a lot. Keep it up mate.
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I can’t help watching at my collection of ancient-60ies-Dolomite,Nordica,La Scarpa by La Scarpa,all firmas maybe by now not existing,sturdy italian size 38(5)leather trekking shoes,and thinking of how...
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By: Dave from The Longest Way Home
One of the nicest comments I could get Thank you Mandy. It took quite a bit of time to put all of these together glad you are enjoying it.Was thinking about putting them all into one downloadable...
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Thanks Michael, glad you are enjoying. Next week up’s the ante a little!
View ArticleBy: Dave from The Longest Way Home
Tell you what, I’ll envy you for good boots, and you envy me for trekking up here!Yes, good boots are hard to find here. When you do, they are usually the wrong size. In fact I’ve not seen good boots...
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By: mandy
Let’s get opinion of others in your next newsletter poll, I’m sure a lot will say YES!
View ArticleBy: Christine | Grrrl Traveler
Nooooo…. Why not keep the shoes and get the new fake ones too as a backup? Better than $5000 for med evacuation?OMG- $5000, really? That’s totally taking advantage of tourists and their physical...
View ArticleBy: Dave from The Longest Way Home
Okay … buying a back up pair of boots makes a lot of sense right now … trying to remember why I didn’t? I think something to do with the weight and a full bag.I wouldn’t have been so bad as to need and...
View ArticleBy: Andreas
So the reason for your AMS was that did Phakding – Namche Bazar (1.200 m difference) in one day instead of four? But how realistic is to make “only” 300 m per day in such an environment? I guess you...
View ArticleBy: Dave from The Longest Way Home
AMS can generally strike at anytime above 3000m. Some people never get AMS, including a number of cigarette smokers, others can it quite early one. Back on the Annapurna circuit I experienced AMS quite...
View ArticleBy: Vicky
I would love to do the Mount Everest base camp trek but altitude sickness really is terrifying. When it hits you do you know right away that you have altitude sickness as opposed to just being...
View ArticleBy: Dave from The Longest Way Home
No, the symptoms are often disguised as mild headaches and / or tiredness. Two of the things that are quite common with trekking in general. However a headache is one of the prime symptoms one should...
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