 Dispatches
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A Real High For Our Last Day "On The Road"
11 Nov, 05 - 12:43
Trekked to Gorak Shep. It was longer & rougher than I remembered. An hour into the walk (pleasant, though chilly thus far) we hit moraine. I'd forgotten about that bit. So for the next hour and a half, we were on rough "trail" - very uppy-downy.
At Gorak Shep, we took a good long rest w/soft drinks.
Then we headed up Kala Pathar. A long 1,500' above Gorak Shep to an elevation of 18,500'. Took an average of about 2 hrs to "summit" (it's trail except for a rock scramble the last 200' or so).
I think the effort of climbing high and pursuing a goal went a long way towards breaking the lethargy that had set in with the team.
Sitting and viewing what is arguably the best mountain view in the world may have something to do with it too.
Got down in under an hour, re-fueled at Gorak Shep, and ambled back to Lobuche.
We're beer or threeing again, but it will be an early night. The chopper picks us up at (gulp!) 6:30 a.m.
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"Easy Days" Come Hard In Post-Climb Let-Down
10 Nov, 05 - 10:52
Yesterday's 3-1/2 hr descent from Ama Dablam Base Camp seemed like days, especially when we again had to bushwack up 500' of thick brush, traverse a few hundred yards, then bushwack back do
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Goodbye to Scott/Summit Plans Form
2 Nov, 05 - 13:41
At breakfast, Robin came in looking like a chipmunk hoarding nuts for the winter (at least on one side of his face). Carl had told him the previous evening to expect to wake up to swelling, but we we
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