Well today was a first, me and Charlie were up
before Kaji, I didn’t really have a good night sleep due tothe fact you could
still smell the kerosene from the day before that was outside of our room.
Anyway, today we were setting off back down the
mountain, we left LOBOCHE around 0640 hours as we were already up and Kaji said
that we should get to DEBOCHE for about 1500 hours, as we weren’t having to go
to DINGBOCHE we stayed down in the valley and passed through PHERICHE that
place that we had done our acclimatisation day a couple of days before; we did
however stop for a quick bite to eat and that was only around 0940 hours, too
early to eat considering we had only had breakfast around 0600 hours, but there
was this massive hill that we had to come down, now consider that when we went
up the hill, climbing over the rocks and boulders it was at least an hours
climb, well by the time that we left LOBOCHE, descended the hill and had got to
PHERICHE it had taken us just over an hour to do so.
We had actually made pretty good timing as I didn’t
realise we were that close to DEBOCHE until we could see TENGBOCHE on the hill
in the distance, the reason I say this is because TENGBOCHE is the next place
after DEBOCHE and DEBOCHE is down in the valley among some trees. We actually made it to DEBOCHE just after
1300 hours, so Kaji had got his timing wrong or was just a complete beast
master, we were also fortunate to get a room as we had arrived a day earlier
than planned.
Today was the longest (time wise) that we had
trekked but it was most worth it to get away from the cold of the mountains,
tomorrow Kaji has said that we should be able to leave later (0900 hours) for
NAMCHE as it should take too long to get there considering most of it will be
downhill. I just hope that my knees will
hold out as they have been put through their paces today with all the downhill
that we have done.
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