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.