Tag: Everest
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Day 11 Everest Basecamp Trek Monjo to Namche
Day 11 of our Everest Base Camp trek. Today was a big one, hiking up to the famous Namche from Monjo. Only 5.3km in distance but over 600 metres of elevation made up of what feels like hundreds of meandering stairs that appear to never end. We set of at about 7:30 and arrived first…
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Day 12 Everest Basecamp Trek Acclimatization Day
Day 12 of our attempt to hike the EBC. We stayed in the famous Namche Bazaar last night and today it was an acclimatization day. Which means that we go to hike at a higher altitude and then come back down to encourage our bodies to adapt to the height. Today we hiked out to…
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Day 13 Namche to Tangboche Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 13 of our attempt to trek to Everest Base Camp. Today was our longest hike yet from Namche to Tangboche. It started off pretty gentle with a nice stroll along the side of the hillside and then we started to go down. We had to go quite far down before starting to make our…
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Day 15 Dingboche Acclimatization Hike
Day 15 of our attempt to hike the EBC. Apologies I didn’t post yesterday. I was feeling quite ill in the evening which I will tell you about. Thankyou so much for all the love and support it has been overwhelming. So yesterday started ok. I felt a bit tired but otherwise willing to do…
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Day 16 Dingboche to Thukla – Everest Base Camp
So day 16 of our attempt at the Everest Base Camp trek and hopefully they get a bit more positive after this one. After having a raging fever all night I woke up completely wrecked. I haven’t had a fever like that since Covid. I woke up dehydrated, sleep deprived, dizzy and weak facing a…
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Day 17 Thukla to Leboche – Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 17 of our attempt to trek the EBC. It would be another rather short hop from Thukla to Lobuche which would be our final stop before making our attempt for Basecamp. It would be about 3 km trek over a gentle gradient gaining another 300 metres to have us at 4900 metres altitude. I…
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Day 18 Lobuche to Everest Basecamp
Day 18 of our attempt at the EBC. We had an early start from Lobuche to our first stop at Gorek Shep. The hike started off gentle and got a bit more difficult as we arrived at the edge of the Khumbu glacier. For the rest of the hike we would be weaving our way…