We continued from the Enchanted Forest to our next overnight stop of Pangboche, which is at 3,930 meters (12,860 feet). In Pangboche, we met Big Bird and Fozzie Bear, this sweet 19 year-old couple from British Columbia. Big Bird and Fozzie obviously aren’t their real names, but he was very tall with curly blond hair and she was a tiny Asian girl with red-orange hair, so this nickname stuck. We ran into them a few times on the way up. There were a few rhododendron trees, but it started getting colder and the landscape changed as we moved above the tree line. Lush forests turned into scrub and then lunar landscapes. We stayed in Dingboche to acclimatize for 2 days. At 4,360 meters (14,300 feet), you could really feel the altitude here. Just walking around made
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