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# Preparedness is a thread that should run through everything you do.
- URL: https://being-prepared.ghost.io/preparedness-is-a-thread-that-should-run-through-everything-you-do/
- Published: 2026-08-17T23:31:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-17T23:31:04.000Z
- Author: Robert Yonaitis

Data Protection Ops Founder Robert B. Yonaitis has just released a new title: *Going to Everest Base Camp*.

This is a precise, disciplined, and deeply human high-altitude travel journal. Over fourteen days the author walks from Lukla to Everest Base Camp and back, recording the landscape, the culture, the altitude, and the quiet internal shifts that occur when the world narrows to a trail, a pack, and the steady rhythm of movement.

It is not a guidebook and not a collection of dramatic stories. It is a clear record of what the Khumbu offers those who enter it with respect — thin air, long climbs, sharp weather, and moments of clarity that arrive without announcement. Woven throughout are the practical realities of high-altitude travel: altitude gain, acclimatization, pacing, decision-making, and the psychology of both the ascent and the long walk home. The same habits of preparation, awareness, and self-reliance that matter on the trail also matter in everyday life and in professional readiness.

*Going to Everest Base Camp* is now available on Amazon in eBook and audiobook formats:  
[https://a.co/d/09ZNc5T3](https://a.co/d/09ZNc5T3?ref=being-prepared.ghost.io)

**Special note:**  
*Understanding Preparedness: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliant Preparedness* will be free of charge August 19–20, 2026 (PDT):  
[https://a.co/d/08KcQaRt](https://a.co/d/08KcQaRt?ref=being-prepared.ghost.io)

Readers who register *Understanding Preparedness: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliant Preparedness (Free Edition)*  will still receive the $9.99 off coupon code toward DPO Ready Center.

Preparedness is not a single skill. It is a thread that runs through the mountains, through daily life, and through the work we do to stay ready.

— Data Protection Ops / DPO Ready Center