The Dalai Lama, Breakfast Shakes, and an Altitude Sleep Tent
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Base camp with Everest on the left and Lhotse on the right. Image: International Mountain Guides
Chad Kellogg’s training for Everest has been an incredible journey in and of itself; days that start at 5am with a 2,000calorie fruit/veggie/vitamin shake followed by more intense workouts than most of us do in an entire week or month, meditation, including the Medicine Buddha Sadhana (meditation) which the Dalai Lama gave him permission to practice, and sleeping in an altitude tent each night to simulate 15,000ft so that his acclimatization process will be faster… Here is Chad’s second interview in The Everest Quest series with Dirtbag Diaries’ Fitz Cahall with insight into the training regime that has helped him get to Everest.
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Subscribe to VertiCulture to get updates on Chad’s progress as well as to hear the more of his conversation with Fitz. Thanks to International Mountain Guides for many of the Everest photos we’ve used throughout The Everest Quest.
