I fully agree with said smartwatch: upon arriving back home my body was simply beat: I did nothing but sleep – with just a few intermissions for light bites to eat – for a full 30 hours! That makes it sound way too easy it isn’t – believe me! Still not sure? Then get this: one of my fellow trekkers had a smartwatch (with step-counter, pulse-measurer, all that), which, given his physical exertion over the recent few days, informed him: “Body’s resources left: 5% relaxation time needed: 72 hours”! What I didn’t quite get was that the trek we took is considered to be the “pensioners route”.
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Not all that much however, what with the just-mentioned plenty of ascended meters, plus (let’s remember where we were – approaching a base camp of Everest!) the not insignificant fact that we were 5000 meters above sea-level (= high-altitude-related trickiness), in all, this was a toughie. Not bad at all!Įach day we covered around just 10 kilometers – sometimes less. That includes the ascents after respective descents. Vertically, we probably covered some 3500 meters. In other places – colorfully decorated footbridges: For the less patient well-heeled tourists there’s another option – helicopter while for the less physically active and fit there’s another: on the back of yaks/horses/mules. But since I’m a fan of walking, and we’d scheduled sufficient time – that’s fine by me. One thing needs pointing out straight away is that there’s no motor transportation here at all: no roads, no vehicles. Are they just heaving cargo, or is it some kind of ritual?… -> Occasionally, folks pass you walking in the opposite direction with heavy wooden beams/pallets on their backs. Along the way you get to see authentic villages, Buddhist temples (which you can enter for a look around – recommended), and also stupas and similar constructions, which you must pass – strictly – to the left: The trek runs through a national park – all supervised, with entry only with pre-ordered passes:Īfter the valley there’s a reasonably easy stretch of the trek that takes you comfortably the remaining two-thirds of the way up to the Base Camp.
For now, as per tradition – intro-post with some of my best photos from the adventure ->Īround half the route of the path (here called a trek – noun, in addition perhaps to the verb) to the Base Camp passes through the picturesque valley of the Dudh Koshi river (down which they raft, it turns out!) -> In all it was a somewhat… ambiguous expedition, but more on all the (interesting!) ambiguity later. And we made it! Not all, but many of us )… In short, we gave our bags to Sherpas to carry, put just the bare necessities + the all-important photo-video equipment into our own backpacks, and off we popped. And here it is – the peak of Everest (left of center) -> Well now the time had come to check it out from the other side. I’d already viewed the world’s highest point from the northern – Chinese – side when we took a road trip across Tibet (via China) in 2019. Indeed, I was fulfilling a long-held dream of mine – getting up to the southern Base Camp of Mount Everest – the one in Nepal. But of course it has – I’ve been more than half-way up Everest! I’m not joking either )…
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