The following blog is courtesy of Billi Bierling, Himalayan Experience:
Another Everest season has begun
The time of year has come, when hotel lobbies in Kathmandu are filling up with blue mountaineering barrels, gear shops are teeming with climbers doing their last-minute shopping and the Himalayan archivist Miss Hawley and her team are running through the streets of Thamel hunting down mountaineering expeditions to find out about their plans.
