Altitude: 5300m
Atmospheric Pressure: 560mbar
Trek: 0kms
As agreed with Georgie yesterday, she came down to join us
for lunch at Himex, and she also brought down the paperwork for us to read
through and sign prior to joining their expedition.
There’s quite a bit to go through, so we agree that Sergey
and I go through it and prioritise organising the payment. We can return the
paperwork later on.
It was nice to have lunch outside, enjoying the sunshine
and looking up at the Western Cwm, knowing we’ll be going back up soon.
After lunch, got back to my tent to start reading the
paperwork, but decided to laydown and rest my eyes first……… Next thing I know,
I was rudely awakened by Adrian
I’ll summarise what happen next as “we’ve run out of
options to go back up the mountain”!
This was such a shock, we had it, we were going back up,
but this was not to be, no more options were possible for us.
Sergey was fuming and I was boiling inside, but that was
it, we were going home!
We both went back to our tents, for a couple of hours of
“chewing on things”, then I decided to go and see Sergey.
We agreed to get out as soon as possible, and if feasible,
to do it in 2 days to Lukla.This would no doubts help us to take our mind off our frustrations.
It’s taken us 10 days to walk up to base Camp, but this
was to give us time to acclimatise.
The 50+kms back to Lukla are usually covered in 3 to 4
days for us clients.
This is more “civilized”, but also gives plenty of time to
the porters with or bags to keep up with us.
I expressed our wish to Russell and Adrian who agreed to
look into organising this, but highlighting that there will be no way to get
porters to follow us with all our bags, and they will be at least a day behind.
The best we could get was to share an overnight bag who will be at the lodge
each night, carried by 1 porter.
Last dinner in Base Camp then!!!!!!!!!!!!
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