Lobuje
April 5th 2007 I was dreading the walk up the hill to Lobuje but actually it was fine. At the top is a series of monuments to the Sherpas who have died on Everest. One of them was Baba Chiri. He camped at the summit for 21 hours and ascended in record time, about 20 hours. Unfortunately he fell down a crevasse some time later and was killed. That's the sobering thing. We're meeting climbers a lot now. There's a
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