Hi everyone! I’m back today with another blog post for you today about our exhausting but ultimately satisfying hike today up to a peak called Kalapatthar instead of the Everest base camp like we were supposed to(we are going to climb it tomorrow though). Yeah, we had a slight change in schedule that was for the better and I’ll get into it later, but today was the most exhausting day for me so far. It was exhausting because it was 100% uphill and the altitude matched that of Kilimanjaro! So as you can see, today was no walk in the park but after we finished it, about 74% of the entire uphill on the trek was completed and it felt so darn good. My day started off by me miserably waking up to the sound of a loud alarm clock. I actually found the perfect position to sleep in before waking up😣!!! Anyways, yesterday I learned the horrible cost of leaving your unworn clothes in the middle of the floor so they can get wet and freezing. I didn’t want to go through the same situation as yesterday, so last night I came up with the extremely intelligent plot to put my unworn clothes INSIDE my sleeping back so that they would get warm. As I predicted, my hypothesis was successful and I put on my WARM clothes delightfully😆🙅🎶🎸🎺!!!! I had the usual omelette and toast and left for the final campsite before the Everest base camp. Our hike can be divided into two parts: The trip to the not-Everest base camp and then our long, exhausting walk up the peak Kalapatthar. However, they were both basically the same exercise as yesterday’s steep rock walk, but more difficult due to a bigger distance and altitude. So, the first MOVEMENT we did today was climb uphill steeply on though, jagged rocks. It’s to long to explain just how bad it was, so I’ll explain the entire uphill to the base camp using these emojis:😭😵🍃👹💀💔. Pretty dramatic, but it’s true. So we got to the base camp called Lobuche and had a relaxing thirty minute break. We left all our backpacks inside our rooms and began to hike up to the highest point we would ever go on this whole trek. It was peak Kalapatthar, the single handedly hardest part of this whole trek. We climbed this peak instead of Everest base camp because all the people who were coming back had already been on the peak in the morning and said it was freezing. We were supposed to go up there tomorrow morning like they did, but switched our plans due to all the people who told us. It was the best decision done on this trek because even though it was very hard, if we’d done it at 6:00 am instead of the evening, we would have literally died. As before, I will express the long, 100% uphill and jagged trek using the following emojis: 😵😵😵😭🍃❄💀💔😭👊🌞😈👹👻. Dramatic eh, because I literally nearly collapsed from the altitude and immense energy of the hike. It was all worth it however when we reached the top and viewed the entire scenery before it’s: The Everest base camp, expedition tents, lakes, unfortunate hikers, and even the legendary Mountain Everest itself. It was awesome and climbing down couldn’t of been more of a blessing. A few hours later, we met two Israelis named Yoan and Omar and played games with them, including UNO and an Israeli game called Yaniv. It was very fun and we had great conversions about the trek, life, McDonald’s, and even artificial meat. It was very fun to meet new people and we went to sleep prepared for the life-changing moment that awaited us tomorrow(for real this time).
Climbing Kalapatthar. Hard, but worth it.
On top of Kalapatthar! Yes!!!th
