CG Magazine interviews McMahon in “Life is a Payge Turner”

Popular Canadian writer, Joanne Richards, interviews American Athlete and Journalist, Payge McMahon, for CG Magazine.  Her article, titled “Life is a Payge Turner,” is featured in this month’s issue on page 24.  To read “Life as a Payge Turner”: http://www.canada-goose.com/CanadaGoose_Magazine_ISS_6.pdf  

McMahon Blogs for National Geographic: Everest News – Escape from Lukla! Thousands of Trekkers Evacuated

Rumor on the trail that the Lukla airport had shut down started a week ago. We were still making our push to Everest Base Camp (17,701 feet) and Kala Patthar (18,315 feet). The weather was starting to change, and afternoons brought a thick fog and limited visibility. Temperatures plummeted to minus 5-degrees F at night. [...]

Annapurna Circuit & Gettin’ High!

 Annapurna Circuit & Gettin’ High!  Yaks make me sneeze, goats eat marijuana and the Yeti I saw at High Camp turned out to be a bearded, 6’8” Canadian. Even with the crowds, yaks, and tall, hairy Canadians you will enjoy this snow-capped mountain, teahouse trek high in the sky! Teahouses What this trail lacked in [...]

Annapurna Circuit Trek Begins!

186 miles, 17,768 foot mountain pass, 30 lb backpack, 14 days, 12 Snickers bars and Tang. Yup, I said Tang. I forgot my electrolyte packets at home and they don’t have any in Pokhara, Nepal so Tang is the next best thing. I feel like I’m 6 again and thinking of astronauts.  If you have no [...]

Days 12-13: (Nepal Adventure) Paragliding & Permits

Payge went paragliding in Pokhara and it was AWESOME!!   To see a rainbow of parachutes circling the Himalaya sky was truly breathtaking. I can’t think of a better way to spend my last day in Pokhara before hitting the Annapurna Circuit on October 8. If ya’ll are ever in the area be sure to google [...]

Days 10-11 (Nepal Adventure): Welcome to the Jungle!

Who knew Nepal has jungles? I didn’t…but on a safari in Chitwan National Park, standing 20 feet away from a resting rhino that soon stood up to charge us, I do now! Bonus was coming out of the jungle and having a 10 foot python stop us in our tracks. Now, that all happened near [...]

Days 8-9 (India Adventure): Floating Bodies, Cremation & Blessings on the Ganges

The Ganges is a sacred river and in Varanasi, India, and we saw it all…including a floating body.   Hindu pilgrims come to bathe in the Ghats.  They also dip their dead in it before wrapping them in white linen and then cremating them in a pyre (bonfire) on the riverbank.  I must admit, seeing legs [...]

Days 6 & 7 (India Adventure): Taj Mahal, Bollywood & Sleeper Trains

We arrived at sunrise. They have separate lines for women, Indian women and men. After going through a metal detector and having our bags checked, we were inside the courtyard. We walked through a grand entrance and there she stood across the garden…the magnificent, marble mausoleum is truly one of the 7 Wonders of the World. [...]

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