People I met ( Other travellers, climbers, amazing people )

★ Sharon Cohrs from Australia.  She is a breast cancer survivor and she reached the summit of Mt Everest (8848m)!! She became the 1st Breast Cancer survivor in the world to achieve this.

★ A great and very funny Canadian ( Laval St. Germain ) who is the first Canadian to summit Mount Everest without oxygen.

★ The big show in the mountains, a great climber, a cyclist, a triathlon athlete & a speaker, Aussie Gavin Vickers . We met along the Annapurna circuit in Nepal.

★ Dan Mazur who is a very funny and laid back professional expedition climber with lots of great experiences.

★ Arnold Coster who is very relaxed, and thoughtful professional climber. I love his laugh.  He also loves cycling around Nepal and told me nice routes and about local  Nepali cycling club I can go with.

★ Erik Petersen – A climber & a surfer with a guitar who lives in Singapore teaching the fit bar .  I met him at Everest Base Camp.

★ Sunita – Very kind Nepali woman who wants to support own country by Mountain Volunteer.  She is also very helpful for Volunteers.

★ Katie McDougall – Very nice Aussie Photographer, we met in Egypt during the Kumuka trip. I like her sky photos.

★ A Great Taekwondo instructor, Jason Smith who has a school in Sydney, Australia. He also teaches healthy life style through training. He is very positive, caring and inspiring person.  We also met in Egypt during the Kumuka tour.

★ A Cyclist Philosophy Professor, Joe Cruz. (his cycling travel blog is very exciting!  ) I met him along the Annapurna circuit, as well as Swedish Professor Georges Dreyfus who used to be a Tibetan buddhist monk and a French translator for Dalai Lama.  Now he is teaching Tibetan Buddhism at Williams College in the States.

★ French Boys, Eddy & Yohann, backpack around the world with a stuffed sheep. Their blog has nice pictures. We also met in Nepal 2008 trip.  They are heading to travel again soon.

★ Ernest Yoong , a retired civil and environmental engineering professor at University of Southern Queensland whom I run into Namche, Nepal 2011.  I met him a year before at Everest Base Camp in Tibet.  This time he was trekking to Nepali Everest Base Camp in his 70’s.  He is very kind and always shared me snacks ! His environmental work is also impressive.  ★ Jeremy Jenkin travelled around the world by a bicycle .  He was hit by car in Tibet and lived in China for a while.  I met him in Pakistan.

★ Wouter, a funny marketing Dutch guy who makes everybody laugh and also a good entertainer for kids.  I am impressed by his performance.  One of the best travel buddies I have met in Pakistan.

★ Dan from NY I met at hostel in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1995 is also a good travel buddy who taught me how to do hitchhiking.  He is an idea man and started NY SMARTS .

★ Jean-Luc, Photographer & Video Producer from Switzerland and Francois from Belgium is now the owner of Voyages Terres Sacrées, we all met at ferry terminal from Jordan to Egypt.

★ Amin from Kings Palace Hotel in Cairo, used to live in Japan.  All the staffs are very helpful and friendly.  They even found the lost wallet in the taxi  for a guest!

and many more!

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