The next of my challenges was a guided trek to Base Camp 1 on Everest, altitude 4600mtrs. This was probably the most difficult in a physical sense, but the most rewarding of all of the challenges I have done so far. I left Australia on the 6th April for Kathmandu in Nepal. I arrived in good shape, but nothing could have prepared me for the "assault on the senses" of Kathmandu. Once in Kathmandu we had a day and a half to acclimatise, and then off to the airport to catch the d