Today was wonderful! After a delicious breakfast of aloo parantha (I guess it's like an indian quesadilla filled with potato) we set off with only our day packs and walked around for over three hours. We tried to get to some lookout points of Everest before the clouds set in but were unlucky, and too late. Guess that's what we get for sleeping in till 6:45! The altitude is definitely felt here. Walking uphill gasses me like nothing else. But the fact that is fre...

I know I've been more exhausted than I am now but I can't quite remember when. This morning we woke a bit after 5am. Not surprising considering we went to bed before 8pm after a dinner that resembled prison food, and tasted like fire (not in the good smokey way). Damo reminds me that mountain food is sustenance and as long as it is edible, that's enough. I disagree, but anyway, I digress. It poured down rain all night last night and was raining heavily this m...