Courtesy Icebug News Today

Keep those piggies wiggling, no matter the conditions

In 2010 I spent a month at Mount Everest’s Base Camp in Nepal. As part of a summit-expedition team, my assignment was to write news, both for Outside and other publications, from the comfort of a tent pitched at the terminus of the Khumbu Icefall. Say what you will about Base Camp, but I was there to do a job, and I found my work space to be stunningly beautiful and surreal. Where else can you wake to the rumble of an avalanche at dawn, check out expedition setups straight out of James ...