Spent the morning visiting the Drepung Monastery about 10kms from Lhasa. Very interesting as the monks were in session and doing a huge amount of praying. In the afternoon half the team (including me) headed up the local hill. Just to stretch…
Spent the afternoon visiting another monastry. The most exciting part was watching the young monks battle it out with the older monks in the open debating. Very animated indeed.
Just spent the morning visiting the Potala Palace. Basically the Palace was built in the 7th Century and extended in the 17th Century by the 5th Dalai Lama. The place is huge with rooms upon rooms of Buddha’s and other…
You heard it right. In Lhasa with all my bags. This is a very good thing. Lhasa is the official start of the trip, so now we are in the capable hands of our Guides. Tonight we are all taking…
Well, me and my bags made it safely to Beijing. Spent the day doing the tourist thing, first up was a stiff hike along the Great Wall of China then shopping in a Jade Museum and lunching in a shop. In the…
As most of you know, we are travelling again soon.Stephen is leaving on August 25th and will travel through China and Tibet en route to climb Cho Oyu.Caroline is leaving two weeks later and will travel through China, Tibet and…
On this trip I spent 4 days in Gent, 4 in Eeklo en 2,5 in London. I enjoyed a few days ‘Gentse Feesten’ and caught up with family and friends. Despite catching up with lots of people I had some…
We went on a little break for the New Year’s period to O’ahu, one of the main Hawaiian Islands. The weather was tropical and gorgeous; Waikiki and surf-beaches were crowded, others less so; the vegetation was lush; the whole atmosphere…
For those of you who don’t know what Cho-Oyu is: it’s a 26,906ft/8,201m) mountain in Tibet and Stephen has just reserved a space with Alpine Ascents on their 2007 Expedition. The dates for the Expedition are August 25 till October…
My 6th day in Iceland; the 5th day of my tour.Everything is going wonderful here in Iceland – it’s an amazing country; I’ve seen some spectacular scenery. I’m in a group of 12 (which is very nice – a small…
Boarded a plane at 11.15am in San Francisco and got to Boston 5.5 hours later. Spent 5 hours on the next plane , after a 90 min lay-over, to arrive at Keflavik airport at 6.30 in the morning. Got to…
There was no way I was going to let Stephen have all the fun so I’m off to Iceland today!! With the time difference I arrive on May 31st and the next day I embark on a 7-day tour of…
I just dropped Stephen off at SFO airport from where he will fly to Anchorage, AK today. From Anchorage he will take a bus to Talkeetna, AK – the starting point for his Denali/Mt McKinley adventure. You can follow the…
Fil and I went to Shasta for the weekend. Drove up on Friday, got up early on Saturday to hike from the carpark to camp. Up at 2:00am on Sunday for our summit attempt. Check-out the photos to see if…
Just a quick note to let folks know that I just returned from Antartica where we were successful on Mt Vinson. About to board the plane back the US in the next hour or so. Will be a grueling 24…
