Incongruent: Travel, Trauma, Transformation

The reasons for making a trek to Everest Base Camp differ widely. Some revel in the adventure. Some cross an item off their bucket list. Some add content to their Instagram feed. And some, like Dr. Melanie Hicks, need to experience the discomfort to be reminded what being alive feels like. She needed to traverse the literal and metaphorical trail to uncramp the muscles around life's wounds.

After two traumatic events and a medical diagnosis leaves her childless at 40, Melanie uses the lesson...