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When You Play Stupid Games…
Wengen is a town that reminds me very much of Queenstown, New Zealand. I describe Wengen as the Swiss Alps on Red Bull. The entire town is filled with thrill-seekers of all sorts. It is an adrenaline lover’s playground, where you can paraglide off the mountainside and soar thousands of feet above the spectacular Lauterbrunnen…
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There is NOTHING safe about this!
Throughout the first two days of our time here in Switzerland, we hiked 10 and 12 miles each day, respectively, but none of those 22 miles moved us forward, towards the Matterhorn. They were merely a “warm-up” for what was about to happen. We swam in an Alpine lake, we drank water from glacial waterfalls,…
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Eiger to Matterhorn
Extricating myself from the US was quite a challenge. My 7am flight out of Reno left the mountains at 11:30am. My 2pm flight out of SFO did not leave until 6:30pm that night and then, while in the air over Zurich, the captain announced we were diverting to Paris because there were ice storms over…
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Mission Accomplished!
Highway to Hell When was the last time you went to bed with dread? For me, it’s a rare experience. I’m blessed to have a family I love and a job that I enjoy. Dread rarely hits me as it did the night of Day One of our Inca Trail Trek. I simply could not…
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The One Percent Club
Seven thousand people visit Machu Picchu daily. 70 of those 7,000 people (1%) arrive at Macchu Picchu via the Inca Trail. The remainder arrives via bus and train. When my girlfriend, Jennifer Solomon, called and asked me to celebrate her 50th birthday by climbing Machu Picchu with her I did not hesitate for one second and…
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Nothing Can Stop Me, I’m All the Way Up
Cusco stands at an altitude of 10,000 feet. I felt the change in altitude the minute I hit the jetway upon my arrival from Lima. The air was thin and cold and I realized immediately that I needed to slow my pace as I wound my way through the airport to the taxi stand outside. …
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