Jiri
Carried Nico's bag when she was sick. I learn from the Nepali
Shivalaya
Local Nepali kids, loved getting their picture taken
Porters baskets
thumbs up with padam
Following some goats
goat-herding boy spoke better english than my nepali.
Bandhar sunrise
Hanging out in Bandhar
me and chhiring. we spent several days with him and his wife while Nico recovered.
lunch in Kinja
mmmm yak cheese
let the cows by...
dopey
Wow, mountains!
See!?
Living here would be amazing
Stupas like this are all over
holy crap that porter has a big load
COMMIE
moo
Solar water heater.
Donkeys!
Longest bridge and lowest part of the trek at about 1500m
James, Kristen and Nico
Corn
Yellow Top Lodge
Hanging out with Kristen and James. Their world trip is almost identical to ours, only in reverse.
Paiya
Clouds.....
Signing in at the entrace gate to Sagarmatha National Park.
Yaks; coming through.
First view of Everest! (on the left)
studying the map... do we have time to cross the cho la? which valley should we use? how long will acclimatization take? plans change every day...
Good morning mountains!
Lhotse Guest House in Namche
OOOHHH!
Climatization walk above Namche
These mountains are getting bigger!
davo
16 snickers and 200g of cheese, we're ready to continue on.
Trying to pass a yak train. ALWAYS stand on the uphill side of them, or else....
feels like fall
Ama Dablam
Arial view of Pheriche ... or just from the hill beside it.
Taking a walk with Dunkin and Greg, the South Africans.
Only place the cell phone works
Crowded Guest house in Dukla
US$100 donkey ride... This is when I had some terrible food poisining at 16,000ft and needed to get to a medical clininc.
airing out nasty hiking clothes in the sunshine
first glimpse of the Khumbu glacier.
mmmm macaroni
Heading up to Gorak Shep in the clouds
And the clouds start to break
Kala Patthar dwarfed by Pumo Ri
Amazing!
Coming down to Gorak Shep
Yaks loading up
The Khumbu Ice Fall
Tourist Base Camp. We made it!
sunset from Gorak Shep
helicopter come to medivac someone
sunrise behind Nupse
dave at the very tippy top of kala pattar
Where we came from
Thar she is.
Nupse, Everest, and west shoulder of Everest
Yak Train
Everest memorials
back through the valley of despair to Pheriche. Looks like 25 mins away, is more like 75
Snowland Lodge, Pheriche, for the 5th time
Heading back down
Lukla Airport
Agni air, that's our plane
Crazy UK group
topless basecamp!
