First if you can plead the the time click this link and vote for my photo.. I can win 100 dollars for my school here in Nepal!!
http://www.volunteerhq.org/volunteer-photo-competition/82408
Also, remember if you are interested in donating to help build and paint my school go to the help out tab at the top to donate! Thanks!!
Oh boy! This is the morning. I'm totally anxious, exciting, and nervous for today. This is the second to last push!
I woke up a few times in the night. Less often than the previous nights but this time in a ton of pain. I felt like my throat, teeth, and lips were being sawed off. I don't understand it but it was not pleasant.
At 5:30 I took a look outside and it was so clear. If only I was one day ahead this would be the morning I went to the top of kalapathar to see the mountain range. I am praying more than anything that A I make it there and B the weather is just as clear tomorrow morning. I am happy for the Canadian I met because today was his day to climb to the top of kalapathar.
I'm sitting in bed thinking bout today. First we will go to Gorek Shep at 5100m have a quick bite to eat and leave our bags. Next we will continue in to 5364 m to base camp. Now that is some high altitude! Afterward we will come back down to Gorek Shep to sleep, probably the thing I'm least looking forward to considering that's been the worst part so far.
Today was the first time I cried on this entire trip to Nepal. I was looking through pictures of the new little babu and just wanted to be back home to meet him and give him a kiss! I am going to take his picture up to base camp with me!
Last night was a blast! Now this is what I thought the trip would be like. I sat around with to of the guides and the Sherpas who owned the guesthouse and laughed for hours. Between the dancing, killer being a dog , and all of them trying to teach me Nepali it was a wonderful night! How cool I just haunt out with Sherpas I'm the Himalayas all evening!
8:51 pm
Well I'm going to try to type this the best I can but not too much. I'm in Gorek Shep bundled in my bed trying to write. My head hurts a little but I'm hanging in there.
Today I made it, wahoo! The hike was rough, due to the lack of oxygen making me tired every 10 minutes, and the fact there is not really that great of a path. It's more like mass amounts if rocks that you decide where to step and hope they don't fall.
The landscape is the single most unfriendly desolate area I have ever seen. The noise of avalanches and rocks falling keeps your heart beating non stop.
Ok not going to lie, I can barely think, my head hurts, and thinking straight is a hard tasks. I feel like I am stuck in a fishbowl. Ah will not be a good night!
I will write all about making it to base camp after hiking kalapathar and back down to a reasonable altitude tomorrow!! Wish me luck .. 5550 m in the morning!
No comments:
Post a Comment