Sellers Family Everest Base Camp Trek Dispatch

November 2, 2013 – We Visit Everest Base Camp

We walked up the Khumbu Glacier to the site of Everest Base Camp, at 17,500 feet this morning. Another beautiful day; we were feeling good so in the afternoon we returned all the way to Lobouche and the comforts of the Eco Lodge there. Tomorrow we will move to Chukung to beging preparing for our ascent of Island Peak. Internet will be more limited from Island Peak, but Temba will keep you updated on our progress via satellite phone.

The entire walk from Gorak Shep to Everest Base Camp is along the rubble and ice of the Khumbu Glacier.

A short distance from actual site of the expedition tents, prayer flags mark the beginning of Base Camp.

Alyssa, Keely, Scot and Jyeta at Base Camp

Looing back down the glacier toward Lobuche

Family portrait at Base Camp, 17,500 feet

The topography of the glacier is fascinating and always changing: lakes, crevasses, rock ridges that move with the ice beneath.