Sunday, November 13, 2005

EVEREST,..... yes i mean EVEREST!!!




Unbelievable.... thats all i have to say..

it was amazing, cold (-20 at night) but beautifull.... really , while my first trekk was all about the circuit, the village, this one was about the mountains.... all 8848 meters of them.... it was perfect...!
so here are some [pictures.... incroyable...

The trekk in itself was pretty spectacular, you fly in at 2800m at the smallest airstrip i have ever seen,( alex cetait vraiment cool ), where i waited for michelle, a really cool australian girl who was going with me.... and we walked, after the second and third day, our first views of everest came... i really couldnt believe it, and the rest well, everest is only part of the beauty...
But it comes at a price...the altitude., i had been up to 5200m in peru, but itell you, sleeping and making strenuous exercise at 5100m to 5500m, well its pretty hard, people get helicoptered out very frequentlybecouse of altitude sickness, hape or hace.... it gets pretty severe...

But it is sooooo worth it, althought many people dont actually go to everest base camp ( no expedition at this time of the year), it really is impressive, to be right there where so many people try to hike her, the picture of the helicoptee is there, there is 2 crashed helicopters at ebc, been there for around 7 years, but it is too complecated to move them, them and the bodies of the mountaneers that are still onthe mountain, its easier just to leave them there..... thew kala parttar, (with amazing views of everest....) then decided to go to another valley with these two english guys, and this is where i had the most amazing sunset of my life, isint the picture amazing.....

and well thats that, hike for 15 days, ate like a queen, saw enough mountains to sustainme for at least one year!!!! i met so many great people, nepali and other, learned a bit of hindu, nepali, ate like a pig and still lost 8 kilos.... god i love trekking.... but dont worry, as i still have a monsters appetite and am not walking so much anywhere, your old caro will be back the same.... but it is fun weighing the same that i did in highschool even if it is ony for a moment!

So nepal was great fun.... but after, well i dont know... i will be in bangkok on the 16th... hopefully will leave veryvery fast for somewehere a bit exotic... maybe malaysia, maybe burma

take care all
miss you very much (well most of you!!!!... not not you of course) (THIS IS A JOKE ...for those paranoid people out there)
take care
caro