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I was fulfilling a long-held dream of mine – getting up to the southern Base Camp of Mount Everest – the one in Nepal. I’d already viewed the world’s highest point from the northern – Chinese – side when we took a road trip across Tibet (via China) in 2019. Well now the time had come to check it out from the other side.
In short, we gave our bags to Sherpas to carry, put just the bare necessities + the all-important photo-video equipment into our own backpacks, and off we popped. And we made it! Not all, but many of us )…
One thing needs pointing out straight away is that there’s no motor transportation here at all: no roads, no vehicles. It’s all your own two feet. But since I’m a fan of walking, and we’d scheduled sufficient time – that’s fine by me. For the less patient well-heeled tourists there’s another option – helicopter; while for the less physically active and fit there’s another: on the back of yaks/horses/mules.
Each day we covered around just 10 kilometers – sometimes less. Not all that much; however, what with the just-mentioned plenty of ascended meters, plus (let’s remember where we were – approaching a base camp of Everest!) the not insignificant fact that we were 5000 meters above sea-level (= high-altitude-related trickiness), in all, this was a toughie. What I didn’t quite get was that the trek we took is considered to be the “pensioners route”. That makes it sound way too easy; it isn’t – believe me! Still not sure? Then get this: one of my fellow trekkers had a smartwatch (with step-counter, pulse-measurer, all that), which, given his physical exertion over the recent few days, informed him: “Body’s resources left: 5%; relaxation time needed: 72 hours”!
I fully agree with said smartwatch: upon arriving back home my body was simply beat: I did nothing but sleep – with just a few intermissions for light bites to eat – for a full 30 hours!
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