2018 Everest/Lhotse
My Everest Blog : Friday 30th March – Day 1
Flying Tara Air- 16 seater twin otter And so we start to walk Turning the prayer wheels sends the prayers up to the gods. You must walk to the left of them and turn them only with the right hand We flew into Lukla from Kathmandu. I have to say it was the bumpiest plane ride I’ve ever been on. It wasn’t this bad last time I flew here in Oct 2016. The plane flies over a
Saturday 31st March – Day 2
We left Phakding on our way now to Namche. This is one of my favourite places in the world. It’s a bustling, colourful, vibrant little town and by far the biggest settlement and the most civilised place out here. We stopped for lunch in Jorsalle which made for an early lunch but there’s nowhere after this. Arriving in Namche did not disappoint. It was just as fantastically weird as I remembered. The food market was
Sunday 1st April – Day 3
Countless rows of gas and supplies to go to base camp Because there was no view of Everest from the Everest No View Hotel, we had to make do with a little model inside my finger in the photo above is pointing to Everest And my finger pointing to the mountain to the right of Everest is Lhotse and in between is the western cwm where our camp two is camp three is highbon the Lhotse
Monday 2nd April – Day 4
Beautiful Serene Mount Everest just above the tree bit sticking up, behind the closer range . The familiar triangular face.Prayer flagsA ChortenTengboche monastery newly built after the fire in the 1990’s . We left the comfort of Zamling and from now it’ll be downhill (in the comfort stakes that is, not geographically lol) Well the first half of the day until lunch is mostly flat, traversing a lovely path around the mountainside and then a long
Tuesday 3rd April – Day 5
We had breakfast at our lodge and I’m not too sure how you can muck up an apple pancake. It sounded simple enough but when it came it was just uncooked dough in the middle. I managed half of it as I knew I should get some calories down but I couldn’t stomach any more. Bob ordered the same and his was exactly the same as mine, inedible. The days walking was really nice, always
Weds 4th April – Day 6
I can honestly say although Zamling has the best rooms, this place the Khumbu Resort, Dingboche does the best food. My spaghetti Bolognese last night was amazing, breakfast of Austrian Omelette was amazing, pizza for lunch was amazing and I’ll be having the spag Bol again tonight. As today was a rest day we just did an acclimatisation hike up to 5000 m along a ridge line and came back. We had lovely views of
My Everest Blog : Friday 30th March – Day 1
Flying Tara Air- 16 seater twin otter And so we start to walk Turning the prayer wheels sends the prayers up to the gods. You must walk to the left of them and turn them only with the right hand We flew into Lukla from Kathmandu. I have to say it was the bumpiest plane ride I’ve ever been on. It wasn’t this bad last time I flew here in Oct 2016. The plane flies over a
Saturday 31st March – Day 2
We left Phakding on our way now to Namche. This is one of my favourite places in the world. It’s a bustling, colourful, vibrant little town and by far the biggest settlement and the most civilised place out here. We stopped for lunch in Jorsalle which made for an early lunch but there’s nowhere after this. Arriving in Namche did not disappoint. It was just as fantastically weird as I remembered. The food market was
Sunday 1st April – Day 3
Countless rows of gas and supplies to go to base camp Because there was no view of Everest from the Everest No View Hotel, we had to make do with a little model inside my finger in the photo above is pointing to Everest And my finger pointing to the mountain to the right of Everest is Lhotse and in between is the western cwm where our camp two is camp three is highbon the Lhotse
Monday 2nd April – Day 4
Beautiful Serene Mount Everest just above the tree bit sticking up, behind the closer range . The familiar triangular face.Prayer flagsA ChortenTengboche monastery newly built after the fire in the 1990’s . We left the comfort of Zamling and from now it’ll be downhill (in the comfort stakes that is, not geographically lol) Well the first half of the day until lunch is mostly flat, traversing a lovely path around the mountainside and then a long
Tuesday 3rd April – Day 5
We had breakfast at our lodge and I’m not too sure how you can muck up an apple pancake. It sounded simple enough but when it came it was just uncooked dough in the middle. I managed half of it as I knew I should get some calories down but I couldn’t stomach any more. Bob ordered the same and his was exactly the same as mine, inedible. The days walking was really nice, always
Weds 4th April – Day 6
I can honestly say although Zamling has the best rooms, this place the Khumbu Resort, Dingboche does the best food. My spaghetti Bolognese last night was amazing, breakfast of Austrian Omelette was amazing, pizza for lunch was amazing and I’ll be having the spag Bol again tonight. As today was a rest day we just did an acclimatisation hike up to 5000 m along a ridge line and came back. We had lovely views of