Started the slow journey to Base Camp. Seven days I’m told, this is so we have time to acclimatise.
Before I go on, though let me go back to 4am this morning, sitting in the lobby of the hotel waiting for Tshering to arrive at 4.10am…I forgot about Nepali ‘time’, when he said 4.10 he meant 4.40am. We then joined the group that we are traveling with to Base Camp. I was told that they were British, well out of the nine, one of them is British, a teacher from Birmingham. The others are a mixture of Swedish, Georgian, Jordanian and Spanish….guess what the common language is…..English, thank goodness as I don’t speak any of the above (typical Englishman)!
The journey so far, I described to Richard as ‘interesting’ he wasn’t overly keen on that word calling it a ‘weasel’ word. What I should have said was that it was a journey full of bumps, lumps, horns and driving on any side of the road, normally as close to the edge of the precipitous 1000 foot drop that the driver could get!
We arrived at the Nepal/Chinese border at 10.40am it is now 13.40 and still no sign of us getting across the bridge into Tibet. Back I think to Nepali time, hopefully, though, sometime today! Apparently it’s the first day of the new climbing season, so there are a number of Everest expeditions as well as ourselves waiting to cross over.
Lori you asked for plenty of photographs, unfortunately at Base Camp I will be restricted to a Satellite up link and photographs could be a problem. But, you can be rest assured that there will be just a ‘few’ photographs uploaded to Flickr on my return.
I’m told that the roads in Tibet are far better than the Nepali roads, if not I think the travel sickness will spread from the poor unfortunate Jordanian this morning! I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
