One of Us Runs Races. The Other Doesn’t. Both of Us Reached Base Camp

My partner Sarah and I have pretty different fitness levels—I run half-marathons; she prefers not to. We were nervous that one of us would either hold the other back or get dragged further than was comfortable.
eBC Trails, honestly one of the best trekking companies in Nepal, handled this better than I expected. They asked upfront about our individual experience levels and built some flexibility into the schedule rather than treating us as a single unit. Our porter was patient with Sarah on the steeper climbs and somehow always produced hot lemon tea at exactly the right moment.
The teahouses they selected tended to be warmer and better maintained than what some others in our group (with a different agency) stayed in. Small thing, but after a cold day it’s not a small thing.