Everest | Nepal-Tibet Border
Alex Honnold sends kind words of encouragement before Robert Alt’s epic expedition. Watch the video.
Follow along with Robert Alt’s activities the day before he left Columbus, Ohio, for Kathmandu, Nepal.
Robert Alt contrasts U.S.A. vs. rest of the world on weights and measures and how a record-breaking American woman catalyzed his connection with Pasang Dawa Sherpa.
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Robert Alt’s father mailed a postcard from his own trek to Everest Base Camp in the late 1990s that foreshadowed Robert’s 2015 hiking in Nepal.
Robert Alt arrives in Kathmandu, reunites with Nepal's free-market think tank—Samriddhi Foundation—and meets the legendary Pasang Dawa Sherpa.
Robert Alt arrives in Lukla via alternative transportation and treks through several villages in the Khumbu Valley to reach Tengboche.
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Reflect with Robert Alt on the impactful meaning of the pithy Italian phrase verso l’alto.
