"I had attempted base camp with another [couple] in 2015", says the couple's photographer, Charleton Churchill, "but the devastating natural disaster of Nepal, including the massive avalanche that swept EBC [Everest Base Camp], turned everyone around off the mountain".
In a lengthy post on his personal blog, Churchill explains the couple first got in touch with him previous year through his Instagram page.
'We both are avid lovers of the outdoors and had experience at altitude up to 14,000 feet, but we knew the three week Everest Base Camp trek would be far more physically and mentally demanding than anything we've experienced'.
Sharing his own experience, their photographer Charleton Churchill in his blog said, "I had attempted base camp with another in 2015, but the devastating natural disaster of Nepal including the massive avalanche that swept EBC, turned everyone around off the mountain".
"After waking up and having a discussion with our guide, and James feeling better, he mentioned that we can get to base camp carrying oxygen, photograph a short wedding, then fly out on a helicopter", Churchill explains.
A couple from Sacramento wanted an adventurous wedding.
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On the wedding day, the temperature ranged from minus 5 degrees to 5 degrees. "I wasn't sure if I would find another couple to get married on Everest anytime soon". But they were thinking of somewhere tropical.
Without any second thoughts, the duo agreed, and the couple is the first one to get hitched at this super romantic and adventurous location. On the contrary, conditions on the world's tallest mountain proved fierce, as always.
The bride wearing a strapless gown had to especially focus on keeping herself warm due to the frigid weather. Here Ashley and James take a moment after their ceremony to enjoy the mountains that surround them.
Kerry, the leader of a Greek mountaineering team, said: "Now we have electricity at the base camp".
While trying to sleep on a cracking glacier, the sound of thundering avalanches kept the group alert through the night before the glorious sound of a helicopter came in the morning.
A post shared by Charleton Churchill (@charletonchurchill) on May 8, 2017 at 12:14pm PDT2.
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