Hi Mikaela. I, Alyson, carried 10 Kg, maybe a bit more, my husband’s pack would have been, I don’t know, getting on for 20 Kg. Our elder son, when we went to Base Camp, he was 14, had under 10 kg, I’d guess 5 -10 Kg and from time to time he’s swap and take mine. Purely because he has less stuff and a smaller bag, but he’s probably as strong if not stronger than me. Our younger son had maybe 3 Kg, but often we’d just attach that to one of our packs. He didn’t need to find it any harder than he had to. As a family a lot of gear is shared, so you don’t have a full wash kit each, you don’t have power packs each, so the communal stuff, and water, we adults took – we never carried more than 2 bottles of water, often just one because you can fill up at almost whenever you like, there’s no need to carry huge amounts of water. If you went with a group and were on a fixed itinerary you may be forced to carry more – although the groups normally have porters. Although my elder son had a camel back type thing in his pack, so he was carrying 1L usually.

Well, you need to be determined to finish what you set out to do and not be a quitter. I hate quitters. Good on ya!

Probably a prerequisite for walking 3 weeks in a row.

Fabrice
56 years old when trekking 1st time for a long duration (28 days around Manaslu and the Annapurnas). Not sportiv. Recently finished the 3 passes trek with no porter, at 57 years old.