Climbing and Running
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Base Camp: Beautiful, Inhospitable
April 14, 2011 by Nick Lewis · 10 Comments
Great news — I got an update from my dad via his friend Leonora; aside from missing the amenities of the first world (read: toilets) sounds like everything is going well! Conditions are very harsh as you can imagine. He describes it as two and a half weeks of abject misery. Although unarguably one of [...]
Namche Bazar – 11,300′
April 2, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
So here we are in Namche Bazar on the way to Everest Base Camp, the last best internet cafe We left Lukla three days ago and stayed in a village called Phakding (we were told to be careful how we pronounced it … Yesterday was a pretty long slog from about 8800′ to here, [...]
To The Summit (and back!)
March 8, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
Welcome to the brand new logo for Climbing & Running & Caring! Click here for the NBC Bay Area (KNTV11) Kris Sanchez interview and story from this evening. Internationally, it might be better to view here. Special thank you and grateful appreciation to Juniper Networks for all of their support! And welcome our newest sponsor [...]
On Caring
February 26, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
We are all so fortunate to live in a world where most people want to leave the planet in a better place than when they entered. I’ve been so amazed and blessed to see the reaction from friends, colleagues and loved ones to the Caring aspect for the Everest climb and the legacy that I [...]
Training and other Updates – 28 Days Later …
February 25, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
28 days to go before the BigE expedition starts with the multiple plane flights. This may not be the most exciting post I’ve done – but it’s better than writing about “28 Days Later‘ – the 2002 movie by Danny Boyle about a mysterious, incurable virus that spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors [...]
Relax, Boss
February 19, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
I’m sitting in the car in Dhaka, Bangladesh and though I’m not saying anything, the driver turns around and says, “Relax, Boss”. It’s not the 14 hour flight to Hong Kong, or the 4 hour flight to Singapore or the 7 hour layover or the 4 hour flight to Dhaka that’s on my mind. And [...]
Jamie Clarke on Everest
January 15, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
The house lights dimmed on 2,200 of my fellow colleagues in a massive ballroom at the Venetian Hotel. The speaker was introduced, “He has climbed the seven summits and Everest” … “Please welcome Jamie Clarke“. For the next hour plus, the audience was either so quiet and spellbound that all you could hear was the [...]
Advice from Dan Mazur on Everest Expedition
December 30, 2010 by Mitch Lewis · 2 Comments
With less than three months separating the start of the Everest climb, we had a call this afternoon with Dan Mazur, the head of SummitClimb, our guide on the mountain and well known for his rescue of Lincoln Hall on Everest and guiding the K2 expedition that was the basis for Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups [...]
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