The Climb Days 7,8, And The After: The Guy Who Summits With No Legs Is Allowed My ThunderThe last 48 hours of the climb are a blur. It has been four days since we completed the summit and came down about 15,000 feet over two…Dec 14, 20221Dec 14, 20221
Day Six Part 2: We Beat the Porters To Base Camp and They Seem As Surprised As We AreIt’s probably nothing to brag about. These guys are carrying incredible loads and we’re packing nothing but our own water and a few changes…Dec 14, 2022Dec 14, 2022
The Climb Day Six Part 1: It’s 3:30 am and I Refuse To Leave This Tent To PeeThe hot water bottles they give us at night to stay warm in our mummy fart bags somehow hold heat until morning. It’s some kind of mountain…Dec 13, 2022Dec 13, 2022
The Climb Day Five: I’m Dressed Like a Ninja To Climb a Huge Fucking WallI don’t want to brag but I am no longer decorating trees with my recycled underwear and today I put on clean pants. Black climbing pants…Dec 13, 2022Dec 13, 2022
The Climb Day Four: Diamox Makes My Face Hot and My Fingers TingleIt’s so weird. I thought I was having a stroke when my fingers tips went completely numb and my face felt like it was on fire.Dec 12, 2022Dec 12, 2022
The Climb Day Three: It’s Cold In My Fart BagHoly crap it’s cold sleeping up here at 10,000 feet. We fell asleep last night to the most astonishing views of the miraculously cleared up…Dec 11, 2022Dec 11, 2022
The Climb Day Two: Let The Benevolent Forced Feedings Commence“I don’t know how much I’m really going to be able to eat at this hour,” Carrie said to me. She sat across from me in the dark little green…Dec 11, 2022Dec 11, 2022
The Climb Day One: I Guess We’re Really Doing This?I’m told that today was the easy day. Now that I’ve finally seen the mountain in daytime framed by a clear blue sky, I can believe that.Dec 9, 2022Dec 9, 2022
I Definitely Did It WrongFucking jet lag. It has punched a hole through my tried and true drugging strategy of the past. Maybe that’s because three years ago when I…Dec 2, 20221Dec 2, 20221
Wait Seriously Where Are We?So Interesting news- I’m still a really shitty flyer.Dec 1, 2022Dec 1, 2022