6.88 miles
2,132 feet elevation
Last night and this morning have been our first really cold days. When we got up this morning the temperature was 22 degrees Fahrenheit. None of us are sleeping particularly well (except maybe Cannon) and we are all waking up early each morning. Although it was cold, the views of Everest, Lhotse and the rest of the mountains were iridescent with the dawn light on them. After a quick breakfast we set off for Dingboche.
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| Leaving Tengboche |
We had a couple of milestones today: 1) we passed 4000 meters; and 2) we went above the tree line. Both certainly are signs that we are making our way towards our destination. Before today, we were often going through rhododendron forests and pine forest periodically but not anymore after lunch today. We are now seeing lots of remnants of glacier activity and lots of rock and scrub bushes.
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| Grace with Ama Dablam (6812 m) in the background |
Today's hike was the easiest so far. We didn't have any really long, steep uphill sections — just a pretty steady incline up to 4350 m (about 14,300 ft) where we found our guest house the Yak Hotel. We measured our oxygen levels in our blood yesterday at dinner:
Seth — 82
Kara — 81
Grace — 78
Kate — 78
Cannon — 78
Apparently at 14,000 feet anything over 70 is good.
Tomorrow will be another acclimization day, we are going up to over 5000 m.
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