by Hank Leukart
April 3, 2017

Three Passes

Hiking Nepal’s tough, high-altitude, Everest-region trek.

Three Passes

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OKYO, Nepal — In October of 2014, a friend of mine from college, Susan, sent me an email.

“I’ll be in Nepal in a few weeks,” she wrote. “I couldn’t find anyone to join me. If you hadn’t already been to Nepal, I would demand that you join me.”

Three weeks later, I was in Nepal with her, hiking the famous Three Passes trek in the Khumbu Region. More of the story is to come, but you can watch the movie of our trip (above) now. WB

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Hank, Susan in front of Waterfall

Hank, Susan in front of Waterfall

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