Altitude has been reached, heads are pounding a little and the air is short, nothing to disimilar to a night out in Boro!!
We have reached Namche Bazaar now at the height of 3443m (or 3446 for those on the top floor) after a long day trekking through some amazing scenery.
The day started bright and early at 6am with a rousing call from Adolf Fryer, a good breakfast of porridge, toast and eggs set us up nicely for the long lung buster ahead. Clear skies showed off some 6000m peaks, as we stopped to photo the porters laugh and mock them as hills. A long morning alongside the river led us to
Monjo for lunch and our first dahl bat and a refill on the water. The leaders (Kenny and Andrew for today) went to get our permits to enter the Sagamatha National Park and after a toilet stop and another layer of suncream we crossed over into the park.
From here the trail took a steep change in direction, UP! 3hours of constant uphill to reach Namche. walking at a snails pace to help us aclimatise we plodded for what seemed to be an eternity and then our guides stopped us and through a pine tree pointed to a distinct triangular peak and murmured to us "Everest", our first sight and even from miles away it looked huge! Sat nicely with Nutpse and Lohtse either side she sat there and posed for the cameras, even Olie was awake at this point, Kenny wasnt farting and Jenny thought it was Roseberry Topping, "Should havegone to Specsavers"!
So we marched on in good spirits and arrived in Namche in the late afternoon, another cup of tea later and a mooch around the market stalls we sat down for a cracking meal of curries, rice and popadoms. A goodnights sleep is needed by all to help combat the altitude but with 4 days around this area everyone should be fit as an ox in a day or so and crying out ot go higher!
A short walk is in store tomorrow before we head up further our project the following day, thanks to all for the comments, keep them coming in, best wishes from Nepal,
Namaste
The Team
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Hello all, glad you are all okay, and hope that when you wake in the morning the headaches have gone. Time is flying by here im on with the arangements for the 20th Tony hopes all is well.
ReplyDeleteDebbie and Chloe :)
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Hi Team
ReplyDeleteSounds like another great day - while all of you are having a grand day out, I've been sorting out paperwork and notes on all the fundraising we did to get you to where you are today-Namche Bizarre-it was worth every moment and reading your daily diary I would do it all again - very proud of everyone of you-adults included!- hope Matt, Kenny and Stef aren't giving you too much trouble Anne?
I feel a parents meal coming on-all these curries you're eating I think we should have one! where's that Lion place JJ goes on about - any parents interested just give me a ring and we'll get a night out organised!
Hope the headaches subside-take care all of you. Christine xxxxxx
Glad to hear you are pacing yourselves nicely and hopefully tomorrow headaches will have gone.One of my neighbours was asking about your trek and asked what the atmosphere was like within the group - given the info in the blogs so far about Kenny I replied 2 parts oxygen and 98 parts methane!
ReplyDeleteyeah the headaches suck but :) your having a good time so that overrules the headaches lol :). it'll proably take a couple of days to climatise to the new atmospheric pressure (yeah i know what im talking about when it comes to that big word lol)
ReplyDeletemissing you lots andrew gill :D
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YEESSS - Fantastic - Brilliant -
ReplyDeleteWell done to you all !!! It makes the whole thing worth while...You must have a real sense of achievement despite the headache and Dahl Bat (which google just told me is a steamed rice smothered in curried potatoes and topped with a thick, peppery lentil soup)
Keep it up, eats lots and keep safe.
Dave,Kim and the family
Wow! Sure you will all come round from the headaches soon..to be fair I thought I had altitude sickness when walking up helvellyn with Matt on New Years until he kindly reminded me it was purely being unfit...!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're being well fed and watered and enjoying the sun! You'll be pleased to know its rainy foggy and miserable here so top up your tans whilst you can!!
So glad you've all finally seen Everest, what an achievement!! Keep up the good work guys, good luck for the next few days,
Thinking of you all, take care,
Lots of love Anna xxxx
Glad to hear you all ok and hope the headaches subside soon. Enjoying the blogs, fantastic to see Everest,Well done. looking forward to the photos.Kenny'll be glad of his turbo boost in the climbs to come! had hoped for daily weather reports but if the weatherman's asleep....!!!!!
ReplyDeleteKeep safe and enjoy!
Catherine xx
ps It's snowing in Flachau!!!
hi just got back from a days work in a loft in the boro plenty of smog but no altitude sickness,drink plenty of water it helps with the headaches, tom and george check it out in bears bible!!!hows dougie and toms syncronized stretching going are they still puckering up? sounds fantastic out there seeing everest for the first time, not jelouse though because i saw roseberry topping today !!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat to get these updates and read what youve been getting up to.
ReplyDeleteRemember where you are and forget the headaches, stiff legs and sore feet, and concentrate on the sights around you so you can remember every minute for years to come.
A note for those of us left at home who are wondering what you are all experiencing. I found this site which shows basically the same trek and has an excellent foto diary. I'm reading each page as the team do each days walk. V Interesting.
http://www.mywainwrights.co.uk/everest/everest.htm
Namaste!!