We left
Lobuche early at 0700 and began the walk towards Gorakshep. The walk was
relatively eventless and 3,5 hours later we arrived at our destination.
This was
the place we were to spend the night, but the day was far from over. After an
early lunch we departed to Everest Base Camp. EBC was not much higher than our
lodge, but the path consisted of several steep ups and downs making it much
harder than the walk initially sounded. Also add a nice wind cold wind, and
what you had was a quite hard, but also rewarding, walk.
Arriving
at BC we spent time on taking all the necessary photos at the banner that had
been set up there, and having done this we returned to Gorakshep. During the
walk back the sun began setting, putting several parts of the walk in the
shade. Fortunately the winds had quieted down, so even though it did get
colder, it was limited how much colder it actually got.
The landscape
was amazing, very moonlike and vast; you’d almost get dizzy trying to think
about how small you are in comparison.
The even have road signs up there!
Everest is up in the far right corner. The small orange speck to the left of the ice fall (the glacier that's left below the moutains) is EBC.
Zoomed in on EBC.
Reached EBC!
Group photo.
Quite a few of these very pink birds were hopping around at base camp.
Walking along the ridge of the moraine made by the previous location of the glacier reaching much further down than now from the present location of EBC.
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