Tom & Veronica

Sun is shining, birds are singing and snow covered mountain tops stand proudly in the blue skies. Today is important day, marking a turning point, where we actually start moving North into Himalayas and towards Mt. Everest. So far we had been moving east, right beside the Himalays range. All this makes more and more exited, but there is still long, very long way to go 🙂

We are feeling a lot better now, although Pavel has very runny nose, my throat still needs healing and Veronica is just perfect. We look at the map, bummer, we have to descent again to 1500m (which is almost the same as the elevation of Kathmandu at 1400m and 500m less, than our starting point Jiri). We’ve broke a lot of sweat to climb and then to descend again, making the previous achievement almost insignificant. All the books were not lying, the road from Jiri to Namche is one really though trekking route.

Today we don’t have much interest points on our way. There is a 109m hanging bridge marked on the map, at the lowest point of the trek. It is cool, but it does not look like 109m, maybe map typo?

After a very steep and muddy descent, right after the hanging bridge, we start to climb again. Its like a daily routine now – eat, descend, ascend, sleep 🙂 but we are getting more and more used to it. Although it never gets easy, you will definitely develop muscle memory, making it easier.

We planned to get further today, but our little nice lunch took so long. That is and sad and weird story all together. Long story short. Lady already finished making our food and then her husband dropped it all on the nasty dirty floor. So they had a small family fued – lady spanked him with a stick, then both of them were crying. Kind of sad to see actually. When finally our lunch arrived, I guess some if it was just picked up from the floor. Tibetian bread had nice sandy taste to it, a bit crunchy to say the least.