How to not plan in advance a trekking trip and end up in one of the highest picks on Earth When you think about doing a trek in Nepal what it comes to mind is serious stuff: training, planning and getting proper gear are the basics steps. Well, in our case, it was exactly the opposite. The deal before even taking the plane to Katmandu was to do a maximum 4 days trekking. As soon as we arrived in the capital of Nepal, we bumped into Andreas Bäckman, a Sweden guy, who happened to spent 3 months around the mountains of Everest. He had bruises around his heaps from holding his heavy backpack - in which he used to carry a bottle of whisky (fair enough considering the low temperatures). Him along with Andy, an Australian friend of ours, made us consider Everest as an option for our trek. We had absolute no idea what we were doing so we let the coin decide for us. We flipped it. Heads Everest, tails Annapurna. And with the coin showing us heads we embarked in a journey
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