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Time taken: 5 hours (incl. breaks)
Distance: Today: ~13 kms Total to date: ~80 kms
Altitude: Namche Bazar - 3450m, Lukla - 2850m, Descent: ~600m, with a ~350m ...
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Flight to Lukla & Trek to Phakding
(Oct 21 '07)
October 21, 2007 Lukla (9,350') / Phakding (8,660')
Our trek starts today. We got up at 4:30am, and were off to the airport at 5:15. Our flight to Lukla left at 6:30 on Yeti Airlines. We were ...
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Everest Panorama Trek to Thyangboche
(Apr 16 '07)
Day 1
Starting elevation: 1300m (Kathmandu)
Ending elevation: 2652m (Phakding)
Hiking time: 3hrs.
An early morning flight from Kathmandu landed us in Lukla (2800m) on a very small airstrip ...
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the trek begins
(Feb 21 '07)
The day started officially at 5am, it was dark and cold, and although I felt excited I knew I had to contend with a flight on an extremely small aeroplane before the trek really began. I was not the ...
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Trek to Jorsale
(Oct 30 '07)
October 29, 2007 Jorsale (9,250')
This morning we begin our journey back to Luka. A long day is ahead of us, but not a real hard one as we’re going mostly down!. We got up at 5:40 and were on the ...
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Everest & The Khumbu Trek(pic)
(Apr 15 '02)
KTM to Jiri(10 hour bus), Jiri to Bhandar, Bhandar to Goyum, Goyum to Junbesi, Junbesi to Juvling, Juvling to Puyan, Puyan to Pakding, Pakding to Namche Bazaar, Namche Bazaar to Tengboche, Tengboche ...
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End of the trek
(Mar 05 '07)
This morning with Tenzing in charge we didn’t have to get up until 8 am and nobody was rushing around telling us to hurry up, what bliss. As is often the way without all the bullying we were actually ...
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Night of freedom from nagging !!
(Mar 04 '07)
Woke up to a window that had no ice on it, the first time for many days although I can still see my breath so it is cold. While waiting to set off I panicked as I couldn’t find my sunglasses, the ...
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The Road to 6471m
( '07)
Well I'm back and what an adventure it has been.
I think I could leg press about 1000kg at the moment. I have walked up a thousand trails and down again.
From day 1 I have climbed. and ...
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Trek to Lukla
(Oct 31 '07)
October 30, 2007 Lukla (9,350')
Up at 6am and on the trail at 7:10. We had our lunch break from 11 to 12. Lunch was cheese bread (popover turnover), Namche ham (delicious), cold pea salad (with ...
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Mani Rimdu Festival Dances
(Oct 28 '07)
October 28, 2007: Tengboche
Mani Rimdu Festival Dances
At 7:30am we went to pick out our seats for the masked dances. We noticed there was frost on the ground. I was not surprised to see that as ...
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Trek to Tengboche/Mani Rimdu Festival
(Oct 27 '07)
October 27, 2007: Tengboche (12,650’)
We woke up at 6am with the sunrise. The skies were perfectly clear. At 7:30, while we were eating breakfast a cloud moved in and surrounded everything, but ...
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Trek to Pangboche
(Oct 26 '07)
October 26, 2007: Pangboche (12,660')
We had breakfast at 8am; tomato omelet, oatmeal, and pumpkin pie from the night before. Our cook, Phuri comes to our table at every meal to make sure ...
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