It’s Harder Than You Might Think (and Harder Than We Thought)

Lobouche (4900m)

After reaching over 5,000 metres today, we are currently sitting at 4,980 metres where even the yaks have frozen whiskers. The magnitude of the challenge made itself apparent to us all. The day started with frozen fingers and toes and went downhill (or should that be uphill) from there. On the upside, we don’t have much in our backpacks anymore as we’re wearing it all.

We saw the Khumbu Glacier this afternoon, but at this altitude our creative language to describe it is somewhat limited. But, as our leader, Khush, would say, “wow”.
We celebrated Halloween in style, with Halloween sweets and Deborah dressed as a pumpkin.

Tomorrow is the big day, which we have all been waiting for…