Carrigaline Parishioner Rowland Newenham recently returned from his trip to Nepal, where he and his daughter Janet hiked to the Base Camp on Mount Everest.

Rowland writes:

I had the pleasure recently of hiking to Everest Base Camp in the company of my younger daughter, Janet Newenham. The hike from Lukla airport (reputed to be the most dangerous airport in the world, but that’s another story!) to Everest Base Camp took us 8 days up, and 3 days back down. We were truly blessed with the weather because there were avalanches before we left and after our trip also, but we had wall-to-wall sunshine. It was so great to be able to do this trip together with Janet and her friends. It was probably the toughest thing that I have ever done, and the altitude (5340m) at 5 times the height of Carrauntohill was a great difficulty but the rewards were great. I was also humbled, both by the mountains and by the scenes I witnessed on our journey. 

Mount Everest, standing at 8,848m, is the highest mountain on Earth and one of the most iconic landmarks of the Himalayas. It straddles the border between Nepal and Tibet and captures the imagination of explorers, climbers, and adventurers from every corner of the world.