When you arrive to Kathmandu, you will not be satisfied with what you find a hot and humid place with mediocre hotels.  One of the best of the mediocre hotels is the Manag Hotel, which is a comfortable and serviceable one. The power goes very often and the rooms get quite hot, which goes very often here. The shops in the Thamel district have a good collection of climbing gears and places to eat. It cannot be denied that this is a very interesting place with friendly people. But it’s the mountain that is on every travelers mind and this place is of little interest. They just stay here for a while to rest and replenish and then move on to the experience of their life.

There are some of the places that are absolutely my favorite adventure places in the entire world. Nepal happens to be one of these and I am now off to Nepal for a couple of weeks or so.  There are so many teams up there in the mountains of Nepal and I want to make sure I catch up a bit on all the action so that I am able to come back and recount the stories as well as have all the juicy tidbits for all you my dear readers. I may be off blogging for a couple of weeks, but then when I am back I would have so many more stories to write as well as wonderful pictures to share from my trip to Nepal when all the Himalaya Trail and the Everest 2010 action takes off.

There is one place I am surely going to go and that is the Everest Base Camp or BC as it is well known as. I will also be taking some wonderful new gear to check out there and when I am back, you will be able to see how the gear has fared with all the action going on, on every side.

The Everest 201o season is bound to kick off at a fast pace now that that Khumbi Icefalls route is open. There will be a lot of teams that will make their way here and they will be setting up their camps, shuttling and checking their gear and also getting used to the altitude as part of the preparations.

As such, Jordan will not be allowed to take a shot at conquering Everest 2010 from the Nepal side as Nepal does not allow anyone below the age of 16 to try to scale Mount Everest. So he may have to get to the Tibetan side, which was creating some hassles as far as China is concerned, but given the fact that Tibet seems to be open for business as a number of climbers are getting there with climbing permits as well as visas. So Jordan may get to take a shot at climbing Everest at the tender age of 13.

Chad Kellogg wants to attempt this feet from the South Side of the mount and he is currently in Nepal, looking to scout out the route and get himself ready for attempting this daring and supremely challenging attempt. He is likely to spend as many as one and a half months preparing him and could start up his way on this feat only in Mid-may. This has evoked a lot of for and against responses from many people so you can watch out for a lot of partisan views on this.

Apa Sherpa does not want Everest 2010 to be just a matter of personal laurels. This year he is highlighting the cause of education and economic progress of his home country of Nepal, which is one of the poorest countries on the planet. This is what social responsibility along with personal excellence and ambition is all about.

On the other had, the 76 year old Min Bahadur Sherchan has the record for being the oldest person to have scaled Mount Everest in all its racy challenges and all the obstacles that come along the way.  It is now said that Sailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, the former Foreign Minister of the country of Nepal will make a bid on Everest, at the age of 80 to try and break Sherchan’s record.

As for now, Edurne and her team will hike back up to C1 to spend the night there. Once the night is over they will make their way up to Camp 2. Edurne is Spanish and as a climber she has quite a few laurels to her name. All of this means that she would like to quickly dispense with Annapurna and Shisha Pangma peaks to her list to complete her set of peaks that are 8,000 meters and above.

With Everest 2010 you would know that things have changed drastically. In earlier times, people would just vanish for a month or two once they got up to Everest and remain inaccessible for a coulee of months. Now people back home get daily and perhaps even hourly reports though Twitter and Facebook. This is also true for people who have taken to sat phones and who depend on it for dear life. The spread of the internet has made all this possible such that even when you are in faraway Nepal, you can be connected with family and friends from round the globe.

The south side of Everest 2010 will be via Nepal. There are many villages along the way and you can meet quite a lot of people as you go up to the base camp by foot. The North side is via Tibet and it is much less crowed than the South side. You can also drive down to the base camp of Everest 2010 from the North side in Tibet.