don and peties nepal trek

long wait to come home

donny77 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:56:00 GMT

hi everybody,

peter and i are in kathmandu waiting to get out of nepal,, we are in good motel but on 5th floor, o well i guess all that walking up and down hills has payed off.The power goes off twice a day and is a bugger at night. Food is ok but i only eat in western caffs, my tummy is a bit upset(gardia) but not like peters. Most likely this will be the last update of the trip

(This is Peter here just to relieve any concern about my health. I have some bug in the stomach which the doctor gave me antibiotics for. Felt a lot better after about six hours but am still a little run down. Resting a lot of the time and drinking gallons of Sprite).

Donny and Peter.

Back to Namche or something

donny77 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:56:00 GMT

Hi Folks, Back in Namche Bazzar. Our trek went a little like this. Our first objective was achieved early on. Landing at Lukla airport. It has a well deserved reo\putation as being the best tennis court above 3500 m. There is enough rubber on the runway to re-thong the population of India three times over. We were cordially met by our agents representative who posesed our return tickets and said "see you in three weeks". With a pocket map of the Everest region in hand, we were off. Gokyo 4765m was to be our next goal. We headed into the Khumbu region through a valley created by the mighty Dudh Koshi River. As a river, it struggles for attention with the peaks that emerge above it. Our attention only drawn to it when we are peched ovet it on some little better than makeshift excuse for a bridge. Prayer flags and offering scalfs seem to be the glue that keep these suspension bridges together. We visited places such as \namch, Dole, Gokyo and Dingboche, to name the more pronouncable villages. In these pleces (marked with a hazard warning on most maps), we shared tibetan bread and Dahl Bart with the locals and members of the united natins of treckers. There were the french canadians who were summiting this season, the americans who had had enough of George Bush and had headed for the Himalayas, the polish in black lycra pants and knee high black sock and the seweds who knew not one word of our version of the Swedish National Anthem. There was even a japanese guy with a flag of the rising sun stuck in his pack looking for a peak to plant it on. He was avoided aat all cost s and we didn't mention the war. We got within spitting distance of Everest Base camp which was not so plesant for those infront of us. A couple of bouts of tummy wogs and the like aacombind with the odd out of season blizzard meeant that ew were about three days short of an everest picnic.

With lips that resemble two ploughed fields, I have discovered that walking amongst mountains is far more satisfying than climbing to the top of any particular one. Don while still removing remnants of several nesting attempts by the local bird life from his beard, is considering the advantages of airial photography.

Two intraped trickers.

Pete and Don

Heading back from trek

donny77 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:06:00 GMT

Hi everybody,

Just got back to Namchie, did not get to base camp,we ran out of days,totaly buggered, lost 50 kgs, also some altitude problems, got to 4800 mts at gokeo ,had 3 days very bad weather and sat it out at macheremo 4440 mts, heading back to kathmandh ,

All the best Donny.

arrive at namchie

donny77 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Arrived at Namchie at 3.00pm Very tired,slept for 16 hours. Spend 2 days at Namchie and move on to Dole. Will keep you posted,

Donny and Peter.

Lastv supper

donny77 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:24:00 GMT

Great farewell dinner. Woke up with popsickles in my feet but sue said i have to go anyway.

wonderful wine -thanks Bob

Scrummy dessert - see picture - thanks Jen

All packed and just about to leave, see you in Kathmandu - donny

Gallery: fairwell party

donny77 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:50:00 GMT

fairwell party tuncurry

First message

donny77 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Donny and Petie will leave for Nepal on 24/03/2008 and arrive in Kathmandu later on that day. Then fly to lukla and start walking to Everest national Park. We will add a more detailed account as it gets closer to the departure date.

Donny.