Back from Mt Everest

Just came back from trekking in the mount everest region...

We took a smal propeller airplane.

It seemed to ba a norweigan airplane..

Tai people had been there before...i saw this flag in a breakfast restaurant.

The road from the airport took us to interesting towns...

It was also sand and stone roads


The houses looked like this...they had some blue colour on them...

Since it is a buddhist country, they also had alot of rolls... and decorated houses...

This is the nepali peoples backpack, like a "2000 system" that the swedish militairy use, but older...

This is the backpack in action.

They were buil;ding alot, this is taken from a monastery high up from the path that takes us top Mt Everest... but they use primitive tools.

Second view of Mt Everest

This is a Sherpa, walking one of the dozen bridges that crosses the river from Lukla to Base Camp
The problem was that the travel agency treated us like middle aged americans...meaning that we walked for 3-4 hours per day instead of 8-12 hours per day, which im used to...

We passed by alot of slow asian and american groups...many of them used porters to carry their luggage.

This kind of bridge were very common crossing the river uphills...

We were served locally produced Millet wine at a local pub. it was interesting, tasted like taiwanese rice wine, but not that ocean water characteristic...
To instead of coming near base camp, i just came to a spot where i could see mount everest...
I was also told that i needed a guide...but that was a lie...many people came there by themselves...
Next time i will keep my phase when i go there...

We constantly met Sherpas, they were all carrying heavy load.

Down, far away there are 2 Sherpas carrying one bed each uphills towards Periche, on the path...
Before we went back to Kathmandu we visited a monastery.

It was raining, I could feel that the guide did not want to hike around in the area when it was cold...but it was interesting, even if all the monastries and temples more or less look the same on a local level...
I also heard rescue helicopters several times per day (like 10 times) I dont understand how agencies can allow people who are not fit enough to go there...then charge them about 6000 USD for a helicopter ride...it seems like money, money, money is what drive them to bring whoever to higher altitudes...

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