Now that EBC is behind us, four group-mates woke up early today, 4:00 am, to scale this black hill called Kalapatar to take pictures of Everest at sun rise! My roommate and i decided not to join the group on this climb! I just thought that one more climb was one too many and not worth my health so this was a call to save energy for the return trip! When we woke up around 6:30 am, our friends were back and we heard that it was really freezing on top of Kalapatar which made my decision look even better.. the last thing I wanted at this point was to get frost bites or hurt myself in a way to affect the rest of the trip... I was happy with my decision: EBC was my goal and Kalapatar was an icing I did not need at this point! I thought I will just have my cake with no icing! After breakfast we started our descent towards our Panbuche where we will spend the night! We passed the same locations as we the ones on the way up so no more pictures needed unless something special showed up! We passed Lobuche, Thukla and the memorials on top of Thukla which we saw on the way up... after Thukla we branched out of our previous path towards Panbuche and stopped in this small valley village called Periche for lunch. We reached Panbuche around 3:00 pm and we were really exhausted as the trek was very long compared to when we went up to EBC! We wanted to go as far as possible so we can have more time in Namche the next day!
A view from my tea house window of a freshly seeded garden
A wind swept valley with some vegetation near Periche
Rob Hall signature is prominently displayed in this tea house in Periche where we had lunch!
More giant mountains near base camp!
GorakShek:a remote outpost near base camp where spent the night after visiting EBC
Flying over the valley with mountains on all sides and clouds rising!
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