6-months to the day ince the wedding and we celebrated with a trip to Lukla Nepal where we started out on our trek to Basecamp Mount Everest. We are well on our way to Basecamp now in Namche Bazaar at the end of Day 2 of our trek. We flew into the Lukla airport yesterday and it was quite the experience, surrounded by mountains, and probably the weirdest thing was the lack of a descent to reach the landing pad. We actually flew UP to the landing strip.
Day 1 was tough because we were tired from our early morning flight and everything, but day 2 was definitely harder with an 800 metre ascent. Pretty much 2.5 hrs of walking straight up with our packs. Annika was not sure what she had gotten herself into at that point. We now spend an acclimatization day in Namche Bazaar and are feeling quite happy that we don't have to strap on the packs tomorrow. Our elevation right now is somewhere around 3500 metres. Basecamp is 5300 or so, so still a ways to go. The scenery is gorgeous and the mountains around us are HUGE and very rugged looking. The villages we pass through are beautiful and the people all seem very friendy (And strong--you should see some of the loads going up the mountain).
We'll let you know how it goes the rest of the way...
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| View from our Second Tea house - Khumbu lodge |
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| Us in our first lodge-Bengkar Guest house |
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| Along the way |
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| Right before our 2.5 hr ascent |
good lord that looks awesome :D Keep on climbing up that mountain im sure it will be worth it when you reach the base camp!!
ReplyDeleteHi Cam & Annika - it's looking awesome.
ReplyDeleteLove, Dad.