I just returned from Nepal. It was more like a month or so ago, maybe. Life so far after returning seems a bit blurry. Things move fast here in America. One day I am landing LA, and the next I am in Las Vegas trying to make sense of a place I barely remember as a kid. Then back to Vail, Colorado trying to make sense of a place I have lived in for 8 years.  I started a fundraiser on Indiegogo about a month before I left. And the day I left I had raised more than I was trying to get…incredible.  Again thank you so much to the people that helped me raise this money.

Nepal was one of the most amazing places I will ever see in my lifetime. It is silly how little of it I actually saw. I think I walked somewhere over 200 miles and I never left that one valley.  That is incredible to me. I have walked 13 miles in Colorado from one end to the other of a valley.  To be honest I haven’t looked at google earth and have no idea how much farther it went.  Walking in the Khumbu region is like “Office Space”. When the main character says to the psychiatrist that everyday is the worst day of my life, in Nepal everyday is the best view you have seen in your life. Everyday seemed to trump the next.

It was a trip I will never forget. I went there on a mission. I was to film the educational program for Bridges Between, a non-profit in Aspen. Filming in another country is hard. It is hard two fold because as a person I like to not have a camera and enjoy the experience. But as a photographer/film person I need to have a camera with me at all times. But in Nepal a camera changes things, it changes the entire experience. People in Nepal are aware. They know when a camera is anywhere near them and it changes the situation.

I am currently in the edit process of the film. Here are some photos from the trip. I am hoping that the trip was a success. Personally I am have not figured out if was. But I am hoping that I can turn the footage from Nepal into something that helps Bridges Between raise more funds and find more volunteers.