October 14, 2004
The Writer Card
DAY 357: If you've followed The Blog for the past dozen or so entries, you know that it was up in the air as to whether or not I'd go to Nepal -- I even put it in the readers'...Read this entry
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ENTRIES FROM THIS CATEGORY
- The Writer Card
- Americans in Kathmandu - Special Report - In The Footsteps of Tenzing Norgay - A Call For Tourists - The Mysterious Yeti - Like Warm Apple Pie - Garlic Me - Sand Trap - All For A Pun - The Long Way Down - Die Another Day - What Exit? - Slowly But Surely - In A Dark Back Alley - Nepali Again - Reunions - On The Way To Delhi |
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Read this entry Americans in KathmanduDAY 358: "You look Nepali," said the hotel manager. So did the waiter in the garden restaurant and another guy. I think I was a novelty act for them: a guy that looked like they did but spoke in am...Read this entry October 20, 2004
October 22, 2004
In The Footsteps of Tenzing NorgayDAY 359: Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander mountaineer became Sir Edmund Hillary when in 1953, he became the first man to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on the planet at 8848m ASL. But he wasn't...Read this entry A Call For TouristsDAY 360: "My friend tells me you are a journalist," said a Nepali man at the table in the dining hall. He was all excited to meet me. "Well, freelance," I told him. "I'm not a staff reporter. I still...Read this entry The Mysterious YetiDAY 361: Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster. In the Himalayas, the legendary creature is the Abominable Snowman, known by many as the yeti. You probably won't believe this, but I swear I saw a yeti in Namche Bazar....Read this entry Like Warm Apple PieDAY 362: Like pole pole in Swahili and tranquilo in Spanish, the word for "relax" or "slow down" in Nepali is bistarai. "Oh! Bistarai!" I exclaimed. "I recognize it from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark." I explained to...Read this entry Garlic MeDAY 363: Altitude sickness, or mountain sickness, occurs when you are at a high altitude where the oxygen in the air is thinner. The human body can adjust to the change in oxygen percentage by creating more red blood vessels...Read this entry October 24, 2004
Sand TrapDAY 364: I woke up in Pheriche feeling good. I suppose when you are awake walking around, it is better than actually sleeping alone in a cold, claustrophobic room....Read this entry All For A PunDAY 365(!): If you haven't figured it out by now, the reason I was so eager to make it to Mount Everest on my thirtieth birthday was all for the sake of the right to truthfully say for the rest...Read this entry October 25, 2004
The Long Way DownDAY 366: (The following entry was written to the best of my memory since I didn't have much time to take notes or photos in the delirium I was in that day.) "Your guide is very sick," Andres' guide informed...Read this entry Die Another DayDAY 367: "You seem really calm about all this," Dr. Mike told me the morning after my near-fatal incident on the Everest trail. "I'm pretty calm about a lot of things," I said. I was casually eating a bowl of...Read this entry October 26, 2004
What Exit?DAY 368: "Ohaiyo gozaimas!" greeted the Nepali hotel clerk in Japanese when I finally showed my face downstairs that morning. "Uh, no, I'm not Japanese." I went out to a table in the backyard garden cafe. The waiter gave me...Read this entry Slowly But SurelyDAY 369: It was the second day of my recuperation since The Incident on The Everest Trail, but that didn't mean I couldn't get up and walk around. Perhaps it was advantageous for me to be recuperating during the big...Read this entry In A Dark Back AlleyDAY 370: One of my worst fears in life is to be stranded at sea, the lone survivor of a boat sinking or something. The fear isn't the actual being alone or being miles away from being rescued or even...Read this entry Nepali AgainDAY 371: I thought perhaps since Nepal wasn't a Christian nation, a Sunday would be an ordinary day, with things open. However, things in the Thamel district were even more dead than before. When I finally lugged out my laundry...Read this entry October 27, 2004
ReunionsDAY 372: I was awake in my room that morning, ready for another boring day of recuperation -- until there was a knock on the door. "Yeah?" I said, the way Seinfeld speaks into the intercom when his apartment gets...Read this entry On The Way To DelhiDAY 373: All my bags were packed, I was ready to go... 'Cuz I was leaving on a jet plane, didn't know when I'd be back in Kathmandu again......Read this entry |