The next day we drove to Everest Base Camp and spent the night in a yak hair tent. The scenery along the way was pretty amazing.
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From left to right: Mt. Makalu (8463m), Mt. Lhotse (8516m), Mt. Qomolangma aka Mt. Everest (8844m), Mt. Cho Oyu (8201m), and Mt. ZiziaBangMa (8012m) |
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Mt. Everest |
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Himalayas |
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Close up of Mt. Everest |
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I was upset I had to use the bathroom |
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Because this is what the inside looks like (and this is a relatively clean bathroom - I can't post the photo Paul took of his bathroom) |
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It was tough to walk up this hill |
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Paul was running up ahead |
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I was slowly walking up |
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Another shot of Mt. Everest |
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Slinky shot |
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We made it up that hill, here's the photo we got to prove it |
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Rocks |
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An even closer shot of Mt. Everest |
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Rocks and Mt. Everest |
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The altitude did not affect Paul |
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Another shot of stacked rocks and Mt. Everest |
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Prayer flags |
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Goat herd |
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More countryside |
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Bumpy dirt roads |
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A different view of Mt. Everest along with a bunch of sheep |
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Human fly at the checkpoint? |
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He was freaking me out |
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Rastafari Goat |
After a tremendously bumpy and dusty ride, we finally made it to EBC. Contrary to the description the tour company gave us, we were hardly "at the foot" of Mt. Everest - more like 40 kilometers from it.
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Here we are at EBC |
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Do you remember what country we're in? |
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We got pretty luck it was a clear day |
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People like to make words with rocks |
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Looking back towards EBC (we had to take a bus to this area) |
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Yay! We are at 5,200 meters and I wanted to puke! |
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The "bathroom" |
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You know, just a carcass laying around with all the other trash by the river |
We then got settled into our yak hair tent.
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Our yak hair tent where we froze our hahus off! |
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Inside the tent |
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It sounded like a room full of Darth Vaders once we broke out the oxygen |
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I was hoping for a nice sunset shot but it started to get real cloudy |
After a pretty cold and miserable night (I felt really nauseous and had a throbbing headache from the altitude), we headed to Zhangmu for one last night in Tibet before crossing over to Nepal.
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It snowed |
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It was cold |
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It cleared up as we drove along |
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I wasn't feeling well, can you tell? |
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We got kind of lost but the scenery was really nice despite the bumpy roads |
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Cows |
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A door along the side of the road |
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We stopped to get directions |
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The countryside was really pretty |
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We stopped again for directions and the kids swarmed around the car |
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Warrick gave out some chocolate covered wafers |
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The kids were very happy |
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Still lost but after this stop, we found the highway |
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Paul looking for a place to pee |
We finally made it to Zhangmu and spent one last night in Tibet.
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The streets are super narrow and our driver enjoyed going about 40 MPH - I was afraid |
The next morning we headed for the border.
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Looking towards the Nepal side |
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The Friendship Bridge - we got to walk across to Nepal after a very detailed inspection
of our bags - Andy's China Lonely Planet guide was confiscated. |
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The locals throw their trash into the river |
The pictures are absolutely beautiful. Curiously friendly children, awe-inspiring Himalayas, majestic Mt. Everest, and the human fly. The Human Freakin' Fly!
ReplyDeleteOn a serious note, I hope you're feeling much better, it's very worrying to see you suffering from altitude sickness.
On a less serious note, you look just like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet with that oxygen mask!!
-Anonymous.."I'll send you a love letter, you know what a love letter is?"
Manimus! "It's a bullet from a !$?# gun!" I can't tell you how many times I've quoted Blue Velvet for Paul. I just don't think other people appreciate that movie as much as we do. Thanks for your concern about my altitude sickness but don't worry, I felt much better after we left Tibet.
DeleteI still don't think that the pictures capture how beautiful and amazing the landscape was or how scary the human fly was.
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