Day 19 and as my plan for the day dissolved around me, I ended up taking an unplanned and unexpected rest day. Still ahead of my daily...

Today I ventured out of town and climbed the Hakarimata steps near Ngaruawahia (try saying that quickly). A steep climb of 1400 steps...

Today my virtual climb has just about reached the elevation of Everest Base Camp. During the climbing season the camp can contain a...

Rudyard Kipling, whose writings were nothing if not politically incorrect by the standards of today, opened his iconic poem of...

A lovely day in Cornwall Park for a hike with a friend has added another few hundred metres to my total, which is now 4900m. On my...

I've been taking it easy today, just 70 metres of climb on a short walk. This takes me to 4631m. At this elevation is Dughla, where the...

Tempting as it is to follow the lead of influencers and nowadays even so-called professional journalists I have resisted the temptation...

From our lodge overlooking Namche Bazaar we catch our first glimpses of the high peaks. Even though these are low by Himalayan standards...

My climb has reached the altitude of Namche Bazaar, the last town of any size before Everest Base Camp. I guess one could hike from Lukla...

At last I’ve reached 2900m, around about the altitude of Lukla, where most expeditions to Everest start hiking. I'm starting to realise...

I'm just about keeping pace with my daily quota required to exceed the goal of 8,848 metres of climb by end of March. To prove this to...

Round the Bays has been my benchmark event for the last six years or so since I started running again. The usual crowd swarmed on to the...

Today is a rest day with no climbing activity for me, so in the pause let me just share some of my thoughts on the Sherpa people. Of...

With me posting pictures of me in Nepal It would be easy to get confused into thinking that that's where I am. I'm not! I'm doing a...

It's day 5 and I have climbed 1867m. Another thousand or so and I will have climbed the equivalent altitude as Lukla, gateway to the...

Or thanks a million for the non-Irish speakers. (donate to my campaign here) Thanks to the generosity of my family on both sides of the...

Donate to my campaign for Hillary Trust This is Dawa Tashi Sherpa, our head guide or Sirdar for our trek to EBC. Dawa has summited Mt...

On the second day of our trek to Everest Base Camp we are still walking through lots of villages. We encounter kids on their way to...

My fundraising page here This morning I joined a bunch of others at Mt Eden to formally kick off the Challenge. It was a thrill to meet...

*not the actual mountain My fundraising page here I've enrolled in the Himalayan Trust Summit Challenge 2020 as my giving-back gig for...