Originally posted in serialised form through late January, here is Louise Currie’s Accident at Tashi Lapsa Pass in its entirety.
The Accident at Tashi Lapsa Pass – Part 11: Meeting the Mad Hatter
After the trauma of recent events, Louise is off to the operating theatre. Warning: this instalment is not for the squeamish [and that’s no joke – Ed].
The Accident at Tashi Lapsa Pass – Part Seven: “Ready to Go?”
It’s finally time for the medi-vac Helicopter to fly Louise and her rescue team back down the mountain and to hospital in Kathmandu.
The Accident at Tashi Lapsa Pass – Part Six: Heroes
Louise returns with part six of The Accident at Tashi Lapsa Pass. The medivac helicopter approaches…
The Accident at Tashi Lapso Pass, Part Five: The Distant Thudding
In part five of The Accident at Tashi Lapsa Pass, the team finally get a change of luck.
The Accident at Tashi Lapso Pass, Part Four: Thangbo
With badly broken tibia and fibula bones, Louise Currie, Lakpa and Uttum are currently 0-2 in the ‘luck’ stakes. First, no mobile phone coverage and in part three, no helicopter for an air-evacuation and urgently needed medical treatment. In part four, Plan B turns out to be every bit as treacherous as getting off the [Read more]
The Accident At Tashi Lapso Pass, Part Three: Rescue In A Doko
In part two Lakpa Sherpa and his team desperately began to improvise a way to get Louise off the Ngole glacier. In part three, Louise recalls some of the most harrowing moments of her ordeal.
The Accident at Tashi Lapso Pass, Part Two: Stranded in Ngloe
Part two of The Accident at Tashi Lapso Pass. With her leg seriously broken, Louise, Lakpa Sherpa and Nima attempt to find a way off the Ngole glacier to safety.
The Accident at Tashi Lapso Pass: Part One – The Accident
Part one of Louise Currie’s story of how a trek to the Tashi Lapso Pass in Kathmandu went horribly wrong. [Warning: not for the overly squeamish – Ed]
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