Yo yo yo! Hi everyone, I am back with another blog post for you today about today’s life changing moment and the start of our descent down the Everest base camp. Yes, after eight days of hard work, we finally went down the mountain that is the highest point on Earth!! It was a very big and exciting deal for us, so let me tell you about this awesome and great moment. Also, as implied by the title, not only did we climb up the Everest base camp successfully, but we also did it on my favorite holiday known as Halloween! Usually, I would be decorating and Ella would be making her own costume, but I never imagined climbing up the Everest base camp on this special holiday of mine. So yeah, that made it an even bigger deal and all the more exciting. Today, I woke at 6:00 am instead of seven like usual because we were going to have a long day ahead of us. I used the same unused-clothes-in-the-sleeping-bag trick from last night and it worked successfully like last time. We then quickly got dressed and started our final ascent up to the Everest base camp. Truth be told, it was pretty easy going up to the base camp. It was only steep a few times, but very easy compared to yesterday. Also, seeing everyone going up Kalapatthar like we would’ve done today was very relieving and boosted my inner strength. We arrived two long hours later and finally celebrated our life-changing experience😆🙅🙅😹👌✊🎶🎶🎶🎺🎸🎸🎯! We also received presents from Ganesh that were shirts when OUR names and the Everest base camp map on the backside of it! I was so happy that going down was the second happiest part of my day. We began our descent down the Everest base camp until reaching the camp where we slept last night(Lobuche). We took our luggage and began the long and relaxing trip downhill towards our less cold destination, Pangboche. I’ll explain walking downhill using these emojis then describing it with my own words:☺😌💖👏🌄🍃🌳. As you can tell, today was GREAT and waking downhill was more relaxing than I thought. The whole trip down was relaxing and we even visited a memorial to all the people who died on Everest and a local hospital. It was a very interesting walk and a few hours later we arrived at the camp. We played UNO and then I had the most delicious pizza on the trek and then went to sleep happy. HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!🎃👹😹
Yeeeesssssss!!!! Ella’s rock with blue sharpie and band will remain on top of the base camp forever!
Tadaaaaa!!
The hospital with the Halloween theme!🎃