A year ago I had just finished an epic adventure in the Nepal Himalaya with my friend Sam Heughan. Now, I invite you to join the adventure virtually. Come and travel along the Mundhum and Muddhi-Kongmedingma Trails to Everest Basecamp!

This post was written a couple weeks back, but I mistakenly saved it as a draft rather than publishing it. So, here it is, belatedly! Yesterday, I pored over photos from a decade ago, high in the remote, wild Picket Range of Washington State, stitching together a 350-degree panorama of these magnificent mountains from Luna […]

September 12, 2013, on the banks of the Bhagirathi, Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India "The river is insane," Wende texted via satellite. I was confused: She couldn't know that, at that moment, I was sitting on the bank of a raging Bhagirathi River in the hamlet of Gangotri. Sure, she of course knew I was in India, […]

The world lost a legend yesterday with the passing of Kancha Sherpa, the last living member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition and, along with Jim Whittaker, the only living members of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. I didn't know Kancha well, but was fortunate to spend a couple days with him in […]