Let’s be real for a second. Four days ago, I was trekking up in a snowstorm to the North Face of Kailash. Today? I am absolutely pinned to my bed in the city, hooked up to a nebulizer, pumping myself full of antibiotics, and shivering through a fever that makes my bones ache. Talk about a cosmic reality check? They don't warn you about the psychological "bends" when you come down from the roof of the world. At 4,500+ meters, your body is running on pure, unadulterated surviva

Dispatches from Kathmandu: Day 1 and 2 It has only been thirty hours since I landed in Kathmandu, but it honestly feels like three full days. The moment I stepped off the plane, I knew exactly where I had to go first: to see Linga Bhairavi Devi. I was right here three years ago when she was consecrated, and it only felt right to pay my respects to Her before anything else. Once I checked into the hotel, the logistical gears immediately started turning. We received our officia

In the thirty-five years of my life, I have been broken many times. Externally, what you might read next, might not look like the most catastrophic situation out there. If you look at it from the outside, it’s just a series of small, annoying inconveniences. But internally? This has been the most soul-crushing, exhausting five days of my life. Yatras are notoriously designed to break you down, but this is the first time I’ve realized what it truly means to have to leave so ma