On the way home

 Winter storm on the way back from Gorek Shep. 

 Channeling my inner Chuck Norris.

In the rhododendron forest.

To infinity and beyond

 Top of Kalla Pattar. 18,500'

 Base Camp Marker.  17,500'

Almost there

 Every can of Pringles in smashed.  But I ate the whole can in 30 minutes.

 Dutifully journaling.  

The Kumbu glacier.

Getting high

 Scrambling across this is difficult.

Good morning.

Hiking up

 Inside a monastery in Tengboche.

 

Completely exhausted on an acclimation hike at 16,000 feet.

Higher, Higher, Higher

First view of Everest.  (tiny triangle in the background) From the Everest View Hotel. 

 Cake is taken very seriously at this hotel...

 This lady was knitting hats.  Got one.

Morning at 13,800 feet.  Trouble breathing, trouble eating, trouble... well I'll leave it at that. 

a few days of stuff

The plane to Lukla.  Where we start walking.  16 seater.  Nice.

Air drying our shirts. 

A monestary.  Doors are short in order to keep ghosts out.  (they believe ghosts can't duck)-totally true

And then she saw I had a camera... 

Maya.  Adopted by some tea house owners.

 Steep.  Steep.  Steep.

A typical tea house dining hall. 

 Morning tea with the moutains in Namche.

That's me, on top of the rock.