82-Year-Old Treks to Nepal’s Tengboche Monastery

07.09.2012

82-Year-Old Treks to Nepal’s Tengboche Monastery

We just love it when folks push past what the rest of us would see as a limitation — like age.

Hanni Myers had always wanted to trek to the Tengboche Monastery near Everest Base Camp in Nepal, and this Mother’s Day, she finally made it — at age 82.

Here’s the happy mom and daughter:

(From the Sun Chronicle)

And here’s the story from the Sun Chronicle of Atteboro, North Carolina. Turns out Hanni does yoga and circuit training, and now the duo is planning to tackle the Inca Trail. We should all have moms like Hanni.

By the way, you don’t have to bring your mom, but our trek to Everest Base Camp will get you to Tengboche.

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