musings of a salt whisperer
This March, I am going to climb to Mt Everest Basecamp (EBC), altitude 17,900 feet. Actually I will be going a bit higher to Kalapathhar at 18,500 feet but no one knows what Kalapathhar is, so EBC it is. This is an 8-day trek and I want to do some physiology testing along the way. …
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Someone was very concerned about snoring last night. Everytime either Ben or I started to snore we got a sudden, loud, and quite frankly, violent knock on the wall. At this time it seems prudent to remind my dear readers that everything man-made you see in the Himalayas has came up on the back of …
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I woke up at the usual6 AM, but this time to bad news. Kirk had a rough night. Splitting headache, nausea, fatigue, and no sleep from 12:30 to 6 AM. He had acute mountain sickness (AMS). He scored 5 on the Lake Louise AMS scoring system, not including the headache. The move here is immediate …
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We started the morning in Tengboche. I slept through the night for the first time since coming to this side of the globe. Only took me a week to flip my biologic clock. We were sleeping at 12,000 feet, the altitude at the top of Breckinridge. Anytime I have been at the peak of Breck, …
So the plan for the day was to wake up early and hike 3 hours to Phakding, meet the rest of the group, the 6 who slept there and the 7 who will be flying in by helicopter. Then hike 7 hours to Namche Bazar. A long day but one that puts us back on …
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So the trip to Everest Basecamp began yesterday. Cathy took Jeff, Silva and I to the airport Thursday morning. I dropped my altimeter (gift from Rose and John) going through security. 😢 First casualty of the trip. We then met John Raithel at the gate and boarded our A350. About this time it started snowing. …
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Last fall I crossed the $10,000 finish line that was established for every participant on the MM4MM trip to Everest Basecamp. To everyone who donated thank you! 🙏🏽 Now I want to squeeze the last bit of generosity 💵 from everyone in my network. I’m raising the roof. The new goal is $14,000. So once again …
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Ten years after starting to use RunKeeper I just crossed 5,280 miles. 5,280 feet in a mile. 5,280 miles. A mile squared. My adult running career began with this post by Mac Developer and personal hero, Cabel Sasser. I was inspired and the following year I bought a pair of Nikes and the Nike+ system …
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Everyone knows the famous George Mallory answer to the question about why he was climbing Mount Everest , “because it’s there.” But I just learned that he continued after that mic drop and spoke about doing science on these mountain climbing missions: Sometimes science is the excuse for exploration. I think it is rarely the …
You probably know Kenar Jhaveri. He is the founder of NephronPower and the first editor of AJKDblog. He is a professor of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine on Long Island. Kenar is a good friend and one of the great nephrology educators. He is sponsoring a cardiorenal symposium in March. I’d love to …
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