If Joel Berger had known the roundtrip trek to Nepal’s Mount Everest base camp would involve 134 miles of hiking, he said he might not have agreed to attend the “World’s Highest Climate Summit.”
“I thought it was 62 miles round trip,” said Berger, the Barbara Cox Anthony University Chair in Wildlife Conservation at CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources. “But it was great. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
Berger, along with University of Colorado Boulder professor Joanna E. Lambert, were the sole Americans invited to the Global Warming International Seminar.
Video by Ben Ward/Colorado State University
On May 15, the two departed, flying from Denver to Los Angeles to Doha, Qatar, to Kathmandu, Nepal, and finally to Lukla Airport, considered the most dangerous airport in the world. They then made the trek over several days to Everest base camp at 17,598 feet.
“It was a very surreal experience,” Berger said. “For the first four or five days, it was so cloudy. We couldn’t see a thing. And then it cleared up. You can’t believe you are there.”
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