Base Camp

Hanging around Base Camp

no sign of lassitude (or Pong, the cook from Rumdoodle)

21 April -

Mary is fully recovered and even tackled a hill today, and with the cleaner meals everybody else's guts are better too.

Namgyal trekked up to ABC today to reserve a spot for our large dining tent.

Chinese base camp with Cho Oyu behind

22 April - Base Camp 4910m

Suffering from an enormous breakfast, most of us climbed up to 5375m for some acclimatisation.

Namgyal returned from ABC with two sick people, one on oxygen who didn't speak English, perhaps he was from the Spanish group, and one more, perhaps Italian. So that is a tally of three down (but none from our group...)

We have one of our old spots at ABC reserved for our huge dining tent. Five Tibetans helped level it off further - it is a big tent!

23 April - Base Camp

We are hanging around packing ready for the trek to Intermediate camp tomorrow.

Moe, Warwick and myself spent a hilarious hour in the teahouse,
Warwick filming the women, and them laughing.