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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 6: Dingboche to Lobuche
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Today was a fairly short day. Departing west from Dingboche before turning north-west, we passed through Dusa and soon thereafter arrived at Dughla, a village that sits in a valley at the southern end of the Khumbu Glacier. We stopped at Dughla for a tea-break before crossing a bridge to the west side of the [...]
Everest Base Camp Trek Day 4: Namche Bazar to Tengboche
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
An early start and another short, sharp climb to kick things off – heading eastwards and then turning north-east to pass the Tenzing Norgye Memorial Stupa. The path from here through to Kyangjuma afforded superlative views of the Himalayan mountains.
There’s a steep descent to Phungi Thanga, where we stopped for a tea break, before another [...]
Everest Base Camp Trek Day 3: Rest day at Namche Bazar
Monday, January 24th, 2011
There was no official trekking today, instead it was a rest day to explore Namche and adjust to the altitude. We did do a bit of walking though, visiting the National Park Museum and getting our first view of Everest from the ridge near the museum. After taking plenty of photos we then took a [...]
Everest Base Camp Trek Day 2: Phakding to Namche Bazar
Monday, January 10th, 2011
Due to delays in arrival at Lukla, the previous day’s walking had been a bit of a forced march in gathering gloom. Day two of the trek felt like the first real day of trekking – we woke up to a beautiful but rather chilly morning and proceeded up join a lot of other trekkers [...]
Everest Base Camp Trek Day 1: Lukla to Phakding
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The first day began early, with us arriving at Kathmandu airport at around 7:00am, for a supposed early flight to Lukla. The scene at the airport appeared to be one of barely organised chaos, with hundreds of tourists and locals endeavouring to secure seats on their flights. Although we were allegedly leaving around 8ish, we [...]
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