Tyangboche - Dingboche - Lobuche - Gorakshep - Kala Pattar (18,200 ft) - EVEREST BASE CAMP (17,500 ft)

Day 6: Leaving Namche Bazar... to Tyangboche - Dingboche - Lobuche - Gorakshep - Kala Pattar (18,200 ft) - EVEREST BASE CAMP (17,500 ft)

A few people in our group have been sleeping all day, feeling a little sick, a bit stressed.
Some people were training.
And some of us took a day of rest (washed laundry, showered, and played table-games: scrabble, sudoku and cards).

The moral is high despite the altitude that is trying to knock us down.

We have a funny and skilled guide, Damche, with us who keep reminding us that: It is not about the altitude as we go higher up, IT IS ABOUT ATTITUDE!!! :)))

We leave tomorrow Tyangboche - 6 hours of trekking... thiner air ;)) awaiting us there.

See you in 2 weeks! We are off to Mt. Everest Base!! :))

And here's a bit of inspiration:

"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest ?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is no use'. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."
George Leigh Mallory, 1922