http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Nepal , Dingboche en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:31:01 BST Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:31:01 BST I woke up realising that there is nothing that I can do about the house. I couldn't contact anyone so there was no point worrying about it. Today was a rest day in Dingboche and that is exactly what I did. It was wonderful. I had my first hot shower in a week. I can't believe I was able to hold out that long but I did. I know it sounds disgusting but I did wash when there were adequate facil http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-291101.html I write easy day because today is our acclimitization day where we 'rest' so our bodies acclimate to the 14k ft elevation. So on this day the three of us did a 2400 foot climb to the top of Nangkar Tshang. In reality it was a true test of endurance to realize if I had what it takes to make a similar climb from Gorak Shep to Kala Patar 18200 the elevation climax of my trip. The way up me http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-234674.html Received a 5am wake up call. But this was more of a natural wake up call. It sounded like someone next door to me fell out of bed. But noone was around. It was an avalanche With my eyes closed I started doing the math in my head. It sounded close so if the snow came towards us it might make it over the ridge where we slept. But then I was on the second floor. But then this teahouse was made http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-234664.html Quite an easy 3 hour walk to Dingboche and an OK lodge. It's a bit Butlins 2 cabins with a Western joy loo in between. In the afternoon we walked over to Pheriche with one of the 20 Minuters to hear the daily talk by the Himalayan doctor team on Altititude Sickness. It was pretty interesting. The onset of Mountain sickness is pretty gradual and you should be able to detect it in time to de http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-148451.html It occurs to me that I haven't yet told you all about our guide and porters. We have Sange as our guide he's 23 and from a village in the mountains. His English is a bit dodgy. Gopal and Yaddub are brothers who own a farm about 3 days walk frm Lukla and they do portering to earn a bit of extra cash. They are fantastic people. Tiny strong as oxes with a terrific sense of humour. I have bought a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-148446.html Today was an acclimatisation day in Dingboche. The group walked up a nearby 'hill' to an altitude of just over 4900 metres. Lance wasn't feeling well due to the altitude I was tired getting colder the further up we went so we came down. The remainder of the group continued up to almost 5000 metres then returned to the teahouse.Drew Hayley Richard went for another walk down to the river in http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-108533.html Today semed a little easier than before but we still trekked around six hours to cover the eight kilometres from Phortse to Dingboche. I think it helped that ther were more undulating surfaces rather than periods of going up contantly. My blisters are still very tender even though I aired them for hours last night in the hope they would harden. I made a soft cover for them this morning which m http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-108340.html Entry completed 28 Nov 2006We trekking up to around 4900m today. So much for the rest.I was pleased that my knee held out and my breathing has improved. There are still members of the group which permanently feel out of breath.A number of people continue theirown risky quests and gain no respect from the rest of the group. To run of these mountains even for a short time show symptoms of http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-105344.html We continued from the Enchanted Forest to our next overnight stop of Pangboche which is at 3930 meters 12860 feet. In Pangboche we met Big Bird and Fozzie Bear this sweet 19 yearold couple from British Columbia. Big Bird and Fozzie obviously arenrsquot their real names but he was very tall with curly blond hair and she was a tiny Asian girl with redorange hair so this nickname stuck. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-76515.html