Mt. Everest Base Camp Trek Diary

Stupa care

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A lama and his helper painting a Stupa and prepairing for the cold winter.they are painting with bushes.

A real Lama

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this man lives near the stupa in a cave around 8-10 month per year. he leaves the cave for two month,among other things working at this stupa.right place right time.

Lama and me

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how often u get a chance for a picture like this 4200 m above sea level???

Day 6

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Dingbouche to Lobuche. We reached Lobuche with an altitude of 4950m. I feel dizzy,can't eat,headache. Shortly after Dingbouche the altitude began to tell its story.Fingertips tickle,lips tickle and light headache seems to appaer and dissapear. Shortly before arriving Lobuche altitude seems to hit me.I don;t feel well,not at all.Not sure if i can continue tomorrow.

Day6

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a sherpa village on the way.

Memorials

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of course lost and dead Mountaineerings and trekkers.

you're never alone

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i was supposed to reach Pheriche today but i met a friend from KTM airport and i joined him and his Porter. So we made it to Dingbouche.The higher u come the shorter are the trekking distances because of hight.So we had a lot of break and much time to kill.Sleeping,eating and playing cards.I met here polish lady living in calgary,it's her second try to reach base camp.last year she failed because of AMS(Mountain sickness).

In the afternoon it began to snow

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i wasn;t equipped for snow :(

Day 7

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Leaving Lobuche to Conquer further 617m altitude to Kala Patthar.This is the way into thin air.

Day 7

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one more corner,maybe more but we can see the sunrise,its getting warmer soon and we e such lucky bastards-the weather is awesome.Blue Sky no clouds.

we get a glimpse ....

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whats waiting for us up their

Great View

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this is something u never forget. as my mom said, things can be taken from u but not your memories.

Base Camp

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exactly in the middle the Base Camp at the foot of big Everest

Reach View point

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before sunrise.but the way seems to be so much longer this morning and its freezing.

Sunrise Mt.Everest

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Great time just watching coming up the sun behind the highest Mountain in the World.Maybe one im gonna make it to the Summit.

Indian Expedition Team

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i heard something like this but didn expect to see them. It turns out differnet,we bumped into a group of the expedition team on the way to the Base Camp.We got stucked with them for at least in 20min chat and we met the doctor, the leader and a crazy guy who wants to ski down the Mt.Everest-isn that crazy?!?!? it should happen the next days so i expect movies and pictures from as soon as hes home again.im exited to see the pics.