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Holy Cow, this thing still exists!
I just got a notification that I registered this blog 18 years ago. I totally didn't forget it existed. -
Kathmandu - Hong Kong
Today we slept in. Once we finally roused ourselves we had breakfast, and then packed our gear. We had to check out by noon, but our flight is not until 23:30. I decided to tackle the massive task of transferring my written journal onto here, while Kempy read the guide book and kindle. It's 15:30 and I've finished updating this Journal ~ the ( Read more... ) -
Kathmandu Day 2
Spend the day reading on the kindle and recharging our electronics. In the evening we checked out some local pubs ~ not much going on in any of them. We settled on an Irish pub, where a rather drunk swedish guy seemed to be intenet on cracking onto Kempy, and telling us to come back at 18:00 tomorrow before we fly out to see the band that will be ( Read more... ) -
Lukla - Kathmandu
Awoke at 6:30 to the sound of planes landing, and decided to get up and start packing everything ( Read more... ) -
Phakding (2610m) to Lukla (2842m)
Woke up ridiculously early - about 6 am - and decided to head to the dining room to do some soduku. The lodge owner had already lit incense and was playing tibettan chants. Made for a cold but nice atmosphere early in the morning.
After breakfast we headed off by about 8am. Two and a half hours of solid walking later we arrived at Lukla. After ( Read more... ) -
Namche Bazar (3440m) to Phakding (2610m)
Happy Anniversary Amy and Nathan ( Read more... ) -
Namche Bazar (3440m) Rest Day.
Today started nice and slowly. We had breakfast at about 8:30 and then got ready for the day. We headed up to the local sherpa museum, and read about some local history.
It's a quaint place, it's in a world heritage area, right next to a military base, complete with Razor wire fences and an old AA gun.
They had displays of hoe the Himalayas are ( Read more... ) -
Pangbuche (3860m) to Namche Bazar (3440m)
By all standards today should have been an extremely easy day. The trek covered only about 6km. Turns out the half way point is Lusiyasa ~ aprox 2800m. By my math it's about 1km down and then 600m back up... all in the space of about 1km. VERY step down and quite steep up ( Read more... ) -
Gorakshep (5140m) to Pangbuche (3860m) [And Kala Pathar]
The Day started early ~ I had set my alarm clock for 5 am, but there was a gentle knock on the door at 4:55am. So I turned off my alarm and woke Kempy. He wasn't feeling well at all, he blamed a cold but I'm pretty sure it's also related to the altitude. Either way I made him have some Diamox before I left onto the Kala Patthar track with the ( Read more... ) -
Lobuche (4910m) to Gorakshep (5140m)
Lobuche (4910m) to Gorakshep (5140m) [And everest base camp ( Read more... )