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DAY 10
Namche Bazaar (3420m) to Lukla (2800m)
A good start to the day at Breakfast, pancakes. They looked and tasted like giant drop scones all soaked in honey.
We walked down out of Namche for three hours and passed many porters carrying loads to Everest base camp. The most popular month to summit is May and one of the most popular days in May is the 10th. The reason May is popular is because of the change in weather pattern. Normally the jet stream winds blow a staggering average of 200 mile an hour at the summit. The coming monsoon rains in June bring a huge change in the weather pattern. The mass water collecting in the sky somehow cancels out the jet stream winds and a weather window opens, for a brief period the weather can be still and clear, sometimes for a few hours or days. Everyone at base camp monitors the weather patterns and when a window is predicted to open up, all the climbers waiting at base camp swarm up on mass to summit.
The porters who walk past us carry crates and crates of Everest beer and giant slabs of meat. Porters walk past carrying cows that have been quartered and they stink, you have to swat away the flies that follow. The clients at base camp demand beer and meat while they wait to summit and there are plenty of porters that can carry these demands up. The average client has payed 80,000USD so in Nepal they are bottomless wallets. Everyone agrees in Nepal the money that comes into the country is from their mother: Sargarmatha, Everest. I might have told this story before, but Khem told us the Nepalese like to tease and play tricks on each other. Its common to see poor, un-educated farmers walking to base camp. The farmers ask the Sherpas why are you so rich and some cheeky Sherpas have pointed to Everest and said their money comes from her, which is sort of true. However the peasant farmers will then walk for days and days all the way to base camp just to collect the money that lies at the foot of Everest. Mean.
Everyone is talking about the coming Everest marathon on the 29th May. The famous day when Hilary and Tenzing summited in 1953. There is even a waiting list to take part. Its a shame we will just miss it, nutters running 26.2 miles up and down from Everest base camp would be a great sight.
We walk on for another three hours passing wild strawberries that grow between the Yak **** and loose rocks along the path. An hour from Lukla the rain starts and we finish the trail by getting wet. We check into the hostel right next to the airport and eat our last meal of daal bhat before going to sleep.
Cooper Out
Love Dan & Kat
Namche Bazaar (3420m) to Lukla (2800m)
A good start to the day at Breakfast, pancakes. They looked and tasted like giant drop scones all soaked in honey.
We walked down out of Namche for three hours and passed many porters carrying loads to Everest base camp. The most popular month to summit is May and one of the most popular days in May is the 10th. The reason May is popular is because of the change in weather pattern. Normally the jet stream winds blow a staggering average of 200 mile an hour at the summit. The coming monsoon rains in June bring a huge change in the weather pattern. The mass water collecting in the sky somehow cancels out the jet stream winds and a weather window opens, for a brief period the weather can be still and clear, sometimes for a few hours or days. Everyone at base camp monitors the weather patterns and when a window is predicted to open up, all the climbers waiting at base camp swarm up on mass to summit.
The porters who walk past us carry crates and crates of Everest beer and giant slabs of meat. Porters walk past carrying cows that have been quartered and they stink, you have to swat away the flies that follow. The clients at base camp demand beer and meat while they wait to summit and there are plenty of porters that can carry these demands up. The average client has payed 80,000USD so in Nepal they are bottomless wallets. Everyone agrees in Nepal the money that comes into the country is from their mother: Sargarmatha, Everest. I might have told this story before, but Khem told us the Nepalese like to tease and play tricks on each other. Its common to see poor, un-educated farmers walking to base camp. The farmers ask the Sherpas why are you so rich and some cheeky Sherpas have pointed to Everest and said their money comes from her, which is sort of true. However the peasant farmers will then walk for days and days all the way to base camp just to collect the money that lies at the foot of Everest. Mean.
Everyone is talking about the coming Everest marathon on the 29th May. The famous day when Hilary and Tenzing summited in 1953. There is even a waiting list to take part. Its a shame we will just miss it, nutters running 26.2 miles up and down from Everest base camp would be a great sight.
We walk on for another three hours passing wild strawberries that grow between the Yak **** and loose rocks along the path. An hour from Lukla the rain starts and we finish the trail by getting wet. We check into the hostel right next to the airport and eat our last meal of daal bhat before going to sleep.
Cooper Out
Love Dan & Kat
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