Its now been a few months since I was at Base Camp but due to popular demand ive decided to type some parts of my diary and my experiences at Base Camp. We started walking on 30th March 2008. A rather scary flight (pretty close to the surronding mountains at times and a bit jumpy during the flight!) took us to Lukla and we began walking Kellie, myself, Jim and our guide Dawa. The first day was quite short but good to get to know each others paces (mine and Kellies is a lot faster then Jims!) We spent the night in Phading and met some very interesting trekers: Johnny the fireman from Las Vegas who loved to talk politics, Darshan the French Canadian guy, Stefan the funny Swiss guy, Giles English guy who works on
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