Altitude: 3790m
Atmospheric Pressure: 675mbar
Temperature: 8DegC
What a great night!! I ended up not taking the sleeping
pill, but still managed to sleep almost straight through. And I feel so much
better for it.
I woke up half way through the night with a big headache
and took Neurofen to get rid of it and went back to sleep.
As I get up, I’m ready for breakfast, a couple of eggs on
toast and plenty of drinking water.
My stomach is still churning and making weird noises, but at
least I feel much better, let hope this time it’s for good.
Today is labeled as a rest day, but there are a couple of
short walks planned, more like sight seeing, to the Everest hotel and to a view
point of Ama Dablam.
Monica thinks it’s better for me to stay at the lodge and
recover, so I use the time to shower and catch up on blog and pictures.
Khumjung is
the home of our serdar Sherpa Purba Tashi, and we’re staying at his lodge.
Khumjung also
seems to be a big village, with the huge “Hillary” school and lots of buildings
and houses. When I ask why the school is so big and how many kids leave here,
I’m told that the school also look after the kids from Namche, meaning these
kids come up and down to the school every day!! A 400m ascent at 3500m!!
Sherpas in the making!!
Also, today Russell and Purba are going up all the way to Base
Camp, and as is tradition, they burn juniper on the fire to wish them good luck
on the mountains. We won’t see them until we get to base camp ourselves, in
more than a week.
As the day progresses, I start feeling worse again, with
nausea, and by dinner time, my stomach is trying to have discussion with the
outside world!!
Rather than wait to see if it passes, I speak to Monica who
gives the usual pills to block top and bottom exits but also puts me on a 3 day
antibiotics course. Lets shift that f@@@ing bug!!
Lets hope the night goes OK too.
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