Tag: Nepal
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Day 6 Kathmandu Nepal 9th April
Day 6 of our journey to hike the Everest Base Camp hike. Today was quite a full day and I have so many pictures and videos! We started with a traditional breakfast at 8 before being picked up by the owner of our tour company for a meeting in his office. Here he gave us…
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Day 8 Kathmandu to Lukla attempt
Day 8 and unfortunately it was a bit of a bust. Today was the day we were supposed to fly up to Lukla airport on the mountain. It is considered one of the most dangerous airports in the world due to extremely short 527-meter runway,12% steep gradient, and high altitude (9,334 ft). Unfortunately all this…
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Day 10 – Phakding to Monjo Everest Basecamp Camp Trek
Day 10 of our EBC trek. We slept in a little today after a long week and mum not feeling so well last night. I woke up feeling good but after our altitude sickness medication I had the weirdest sensation in my hands. It felt like my blood was fizzing or boiling in my fingertips…
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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 14 Tangboche to Dingboche Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 14 of our attempt to hike the EBC. Today was a rough day for me personally. It started with mum waking me up at 5am telling she was done and wasn’t going hike any further. She couldn’t eat the food and she was done. Well after a little bit of cajoling and taking a…
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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…