Everest Base Camp Trek Dispatch
April 11, 2009 – Team Sends Photos of Base Camp From Namche
Temba reported to us today that the team is back in Namche. At 11,400 feet (3,500 m) above sea level, Namche is high altitude when a trekking group first arrives, but on the way home it seems like a return to the lowlands; even though the town is supplied by yaks and porters and the grandest mountains in the world still tower overhead. The air is thicker, the showers hotter and the internet faster in Namche. Temba sent some great photos of the group’s journey to Everest Base Camp.
On Wednesday Bob reached the summit of Kala Pattar
Bob and Kit at the point on Kala Pattar where Kit turned back, with Everest if visible in the clouds behind
Edouard along the trail into Gorak Shep, with Pumori behind
Jim and Janet, just outside Gorak Shep, the final outpost before Everest Base Camp
BAI guide Nuru and Jim at Everest Base Camp on Thursday, April 9th
Kit and Bob at Everest Base Camp, with the famous Khumbu Icefall behind
We made it! Team photo at Everest Base Camp
After weeks of difficult trekking in Bhutan and Nepal, Jim decided to ride a pony down the valley
On the way into Namche on the 11th, we enjoyed taking lunch in the sunshine
We heading home, but still marveling at the world’s greatest mountains. Janet and Jim with Everest and Ama Dablam behind.