Michael Jackman, Writer

Mike Jackman
May 11, 2000
Louisville, KY, USA
May 8, 2000
3:44 PM EST
How odd to have a dateline saying “Louisville” after all this time! We’ve been back for just over a week now. This dispatch is late. Isn’t it funny that we could get a dispatch out every day while we were in Nepal, but it took a [...]

David Bard and Mike Jackman
May 1, 2000
Here are the top ten things we’re not looking forward to when we return to the U.S.:
10. David: Okay Mike, here’s what I say: work. I’m finding it hard to think about returning to a cramped office. Maybe we can move my laptop out beneath a tree.
Mike: David, we [...]

By BILL PIKE, The Courier-Journal
As part of a class project, sixth- and seventh-graders at Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in Louisville have been communicating by e-mail with two mountain climbers in the Himalayas.
They’ve learned about spectacular views, arduous climbs, the world’s highest monastery and enterprising people who live in the mountains.
But sixth-graders at the school [...]

Mike Jackman
4/29/00, Kathmandu, Nepal
8:00 P.M. local time (10:15 A.M. EDT)
CLEAN! Long shower, shampoo three times, trim the new beard, brush the teeth for an hour, it seemed. Should I keep the beard? Maybe just to show the gang when I return. It’s been years since I sported a beard—since my New York country-music-band days. That’s [...]

Mike Jackman
4/28/00, Lukla, Nepal
Greetings!
Today was another hard day. There’s a gigantic hill to climb into Lukla, and I found myself hitting the ground with my trekking poles in frustration because it went on and on and on, and I had forgotten about this initial downhill, which, in reverse, became a flashback to early days of [...]

Mike Jackman
4/27/00, Phakding, Nepal
Shorter dispatch today because of our battery conservation measures…
We had a wonderful, mostly downhill hike today for about five hours from Namche to Phakding. When the hills had to be climbed, we also noticed that we had a lot more energy for them—must be the oxygen saturation in our bloodstreams increasing. Bruce [...]

David Bard and Mike Jackman
Apr 26, 2000
As part of their almostEverest trek challenge, Mike and Dave are introducing school children to high-tech and high-altitude technology (see “Back to school: Dave and Mike’s day off” and “Back to school: The first collection of answers from Nepal”). Cassie Beisel recently sent an e-mail to the guys, offering [...]

Mike Jackman
4/26/00, Namche, Nepal
3:15 P.M. local time (5:30 A.M. EDT)
For all you technophiliacs out there, here’s a special treat. I contacted Tom Clancy by satellite phone, and he agreed to write a special dispatch for us, called “Night Ops,” about our adventure in Tangboche.

Author’s Note; All apologies to Mr. Clancy in advance. I just thought [...]

Mike Jackman
4/25/00,Namche, Nepal 4:30 P.M. local time (6:45 A.M. EDT)
Mike finds a way to become claustrophobic in the wide-open space of the Himalayas, and he discovers that yaks, too, can be comedians.
We couldn’t send any photos yesterday. We wanted to, but were having trouble keeping the connection open long enough. In addition, we were [...]

David Bard and Mike Jackman
Apr 24, 2000
As part of their almostEverest trek challenge, Mike and Dave are introducing school children to high-tech and high-altitude technology (see Back to school: Dave and Mike’s day off). The students from Ms. Oyler’s sixth- and seventh-grade class at Most Blessed Sacrament Elementary School have sent Mike and Dave several [...]