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The flight from Kathmandu to Lukla



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Blog: Unfinished business - failure on Lobuche
Date: December 16th 2011

Fresh from success on Island Peak I was fit and ready for my next obstacle - Lobuche East. Unfortunately, fate had decided otherwise and I succumbed to a nasty case of man flu. Leaving the tent at 3am on summit morning I knew it was going to be a struggle but I decided to have a crack at it anyway. After struggling up the mountain for a couple of hours, and with the difficult bit about to ... read more


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Tot: 0.093s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 6; qc: 31; dbt: 0.0194s; 1; s:apollo w:www (50.28.60.10); sld: 1; ; mem: 6.4mb