Today was an acclimatization day thankfully. An opportunity to rest after the fairly hectic previous two days. We spent the morning walking up the hillside next to Dingboche to get used to the altitude. That hillside is over an 45 degree walk up over 400m in altitude which took us nearly two hours to climb. At the top it was wonderful however. Gorgeous views of the surrounds made the climb worthwhile. We could see Island peak all the way from here, which is the mountain that the American climber wanted to do. We took lots of photos from the top, including on an outcropping which everyone else jumped onto and which I crawled up on to. As usual the walk down afterwards was a piece of cake, if you ignore the murder you did to your
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