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A Window Seat to Everest Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain – Sir Edmund Hillary. The Itch for Everest Base Camp I’ve had this wish—no, this persistent itch—to trek to the Everest Base Camp (EBC) for a while now. I consulted Google Baba, bothered friends and family for info who had ticked it off their lists, and even tried to gently coerce a few comrades I believed to be fit—both in limb and in mind—to come with me. But alas, while their reasons ranged from the practical to the philosophical, my own body had different plans. Orthopaedic issues started waving red flags like traffic police in Bengaluru during peak hours. You see, in college, I was quite the mountaineer—scaling Shivaji Maharaj’s forts in Maharashtra like a spirited goat. So this, truly, was a blow. Still, I’m not someone who gives up easily. I stretched, walked, did yoga, buttered up my bones with supplements. But each time I push...