Venerable Robina Leads Us to Lawudo Again
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, our fourth annual Lawudo Trek to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s cave at Lawudo in Solu Khumbu with Ven. Robina Courtin took place in Nepal’s Autumn last year. Twenty-seven of us met on October 3 at Kopan, Rinpoche’s monastery in the Kathmandu Valley, where Ven. Robina gave us four days of teachings. An unusually long monsoon meant we had to change plans and travel in small groups by helicopter from Kathmandu rather than take the plane to Lukla. We walked for three days, led by our formidable Amber Tamang and his Three Jewels Adventures team, and spent four days in retreat at Lawudo, perched on the side of a mountain in the Thame Valley in Everest National Park, 12,630 feet (3,850m) above sea level…
Read the full report from the 2022 Lawudo Trek here.