Ah Namche, you beautiful thing. The Holy Grail of all returning Everest trekkers and unknown last comfortable outpost for the uninitiated ones, you provide hot showers, cheap wonderful yak steak and warm rooms to cheer us before our respective journeys onwards. And lastly, tonight you provide us in particular with one very special and overdue thing: a lie-in! Namche was our destination after an early start when unusually we were ready on time. We ploughed on det...

Today was fun: our first sight of Everest, I fixed our toilet and I'm not tired. Good times. Once we'd finished waiting for Gez to faff around (yes, there is someone in the universe who takes longer than me to get ready) we started a long climb up to the Everest View. My gamble of wearing shorts and t-shirt paid off almost instantly and we were treated to an amazing view of Everest and the surrounding mountains, including a sneak preview of the next few days of ...

A sluggish start this morning saw us leave at 8:45am. A bit later than we'd planned. We were informed to prepare for a cold morning. We did, and instead of cold we got glorious sunshine! Fleeces were quickly replaced with sunglasses and hats as the slow roasting of my neck continued... I should say something about the scenery here. It's simply beautiful. Because of the gorgeous weather we could see the snow-capped peak of Thamserku to the right as we followed th...