 Our porters all together.  Dorrie with Shishir.....I think Dorrie wants to take him home sshhh. |
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So last night Elaine makes the discovery that Evan had a wet ones wash down and used Elaine's brand new microfibre towel to dry his “bits” off. Ok, he’s used it after the wash down, but given there’s 6 days of stench that a tiny little absorbent towelette had to deal with.......Elaine asks the question “is this grounds for divorce”. I say YES. I also say we burn the towel on top of KP like some kind of ritual. Elaine, I think is happy to put it in a big zip lock bag and confident her trusty washing machine set at 90 degrees will have it back to new in no time.
We set off in blue sky again today we just need one more day of this. A steep climb out of Dingboche then a gradual incline in full sunshine but the wind was rather chilly. A huge landslide had washed the bridge away taking us to the small village of Thukla. They have put in a temporarily bridge but the twisted mangled remnants of the old bridge amongst boulders still remain.
A big climb up the moraine after a hot drink and snickers bars saw us at the top where a memorial sits in honour of people who have lost their lives climbing Everest. We are now sitting in our lodge.
A helicopter has just landed 100 meters away from us picking up a trekker who has succumb to altitude sickness. He was very wobbly and aided on either side. A reminder of the dangers of being in altitude and thank goodness our team is going strong with no symptoms whatsoever.
We are having a late lunch and will do a small acclimatization walk just up from our hotel to view the Khumbu glacier.
Matt has brought a few packets of Beef Jerky with him and I gotta say it tastes pretty good at this altitude. Well done Matt.
We set off in blue sky again today we just need one more day of this. A steep climb out of Dingboche then a gradual incline in full sunshine but the wind was rather chilly. A huge landslide had washed the bridge away taking us to the small village of Thukla. They have put in a temporarily bridge but the twisted mangled remnants of the old bridge amongst boulders still remain.
A big climb up the moraine after a hot drink and snickers bars saw us at the top where a memorial sits in honour of people who have lost their lives climbing Everest. We are now sitting in our lodge.
A helicopter has just landed 100 meters away from us picking up a trekker who has succumb to altitude sickness. He was very wobbly and aided on either side. A reminder of the dangers of being in altitude and thank goodness our team is going strong with no symptoms whatsoever.
We are having a late lunch and will do a small acclimatization walk just up from our hotel to view the Khumbu glacier.
Matt has brought a few packets of Beef Jerky with him and I gotta say it tastes pretty good at this altitude. Well done Matt.
