Still in Namche. Yesterday was an eventful day when a walk through the local village of Khumjang at 3,860m resulted in a dog taking a good bite of the back of my leg – the last thing I needed due to the risk of getting an infection. Whilst a little bruised and sore, some 24hrs later it looks to be healing ok but will need to be keeping an eye on it over the next few days as we move higher.
Today consisted of another hike back to the same village (avoding any dog of course). There, James and I dropped into the Sir Edmund Hillary School to see the great contributions Sir Ed has made to the local sherpa community building this school, and providing access to basic education and health services. His recent passing away was a great loss to the sherpas.
The rest of our team members arrived today so we all got to know each other a bit. Everyone now is focused on eating, drinking and relaxing well for the weeks ahead; taking in the simplicity of sherpa village life.
Today consisted of another hike back to the same village (avoding any dog of course). There, James and I dropped into the Sir Edmund Hillary School to see the great contributions Sir Ed has made to the local sherpa community building this school, and providing access to basic education and health services. His recent passing away was a great loss to the sherpas.
The rest of our team members arrived today so we all got to know each other a bit. Everyone now is focused on eating, drinking and relaxing well for the weeks ahead; taking in the simplicity of sherpa village life.
James and I have sufficiently acclimatized here at Namche and will depart tomorrow heading further up the valley towards Everest; heading first for the village of Dole at 4,200m, about a 5 hour hike. We have added a bit of a variation to our approach by planning to climb up and over the Cho La pass which will take about 8 hours and get us to an altitude of 5,330m (more acclimatization) before dropping down to about 4,600m in the next valley across. From there we will continue to make our way slowly up towards Everest base camp where we will meet up with the rest of our team once the have acclimatized proper. We all have to time our arrival at base camp with the arrival of all equipment and supplies which we are assured are now in transit. This is taking a little longer than expected because on 10th April the country will come to a stop with national elections, plus porters and yaks are in short demand due to last minute approval of expedition permits for many teams now in transit to base camp.
Not sure where I will be updating you from next as we move into higher and more remote areas…but for the moment…bye for now…..David
Not sure where I will be updating you from next as we move into higher and more remote areas…but for the moment…bye for now…..David
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