Today started even earlier than yesterday at 4.40 and woke up to a chilling -4 in my room! In all honesty I was pleased to hear my alarm as I only had an hour sleep! At 5am it was time to start climbing Kala Patthar who's peak stands at 5545 meters. It was by far the most difficult thing I've ever done! It seamed to go on for ages and because of the lack of oxygen it was just tiny step after tiny step! In all fairness I couldn't have done it with out Ollie ther...

So today is the day. Didn't get much sleep up here and started off really early. Left the lodge at 6am and made our way to Gorak Shep. In an attempt to stay warm the lodge fire was on as we had breakfast and I stupidly burnt my gloves on the top of the stove. This meant my hands were only partly covered at 6am 5100m up! It was excruciating! My hands had never hurt so much, I just couldn't wait for the sun to rise and warm them back up! It was 3 hours to Gorak Sh...

For the first time on our trip it was overcast this morning, which meant it was ridiculously cold for our trek. Thankfully it was one of our shorter walks and being so cold people walked a lot quicker! Arrived at our lodge by 1pm and the only hiccup was a nervous pass that was covered in ice and had a 30m drop a few inches away! Took my time and I'm still alive! As we are getting so high now it's more important to do acclimatisation treks, so as we arrived early...

The altitude is starting to take its toll, its hard to sleep as you find yourself suddenly gasping for oxygen, and its freezing at night, when I got into my sleeping bag last night i could see my breath, and my toothpaste was frozen this morning! Still, we did another acclimatisation trek, gaining 400m to 4850m! On the way up at a stupa I got my flag out and had a picture in my kit, as today was the day Wales played England! Feeling confident and can't wait to kn...

I apologise in advance about the topic I'm about to write about but it was defiantly an experience and this blog is all about sharing those experiences.... I woke up this morning and decided to use the facilities - if that's what you can call them... And as I was doing so I looked out of an awkwardly positioned window and realised I was looking at Mount Everest! Now how many people get to say they have had a leak in front of the top of the world!! I did chuckle t...