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In the New Jersey parking lot where high school students invented Ultimate Frisbee nearly 60 years ago, some of the original ...

We were five Americans, our guide Sunil and six Sherpa porters. Our trek was from Lukla, Nepal to Mount Everest base camp. The round trip distance is about 100 miles with no flat trail area. It’s all ...