We’ve received quite a few visitors to the site over the past couple of days. Welcome! I hope you join us in December for the Christmas of a lifetime. Please have a look around and email me any questions you may have about the trip. I’ll post the answers here or on the FAQ page. Here’s a common one…

Q. What’s the food like in Nepal?

A. On the trek, you’ll probably eat a lot of pasta, potatoes and eggs. I tend to shy away from the meat options, just to keep my stomach happy, but, if you’re game, you can get yourself a yak steak or chicken cooked any of about a half dozen ostensibly different ways (e.g. chicken steak, chicken sizzler, fried chicken, chicken tender…). There’s also the ubiquitous dal baht tarkari: steamed rice with lentil soup and vegetable curry. It’s simple and tasty and it’s powered many a porter up the Khumbu. It’ll do you right too. Back in Kathmandu, two of my favorite meals are pizza at Fire and Ice and breakfast and a hot pot of tea on a foggy morning while seated outdoors in the garden restaurant at Pilgrims Book House.