The descent down Everest😌(Yes!)

Hi everyone! I’m back today with another blog post for you about our calm and very exciting descent down the mountain. Today was primarily downhill with only two large uphills… that were 70% of our day. Yeah, they were hard, but the ultimate satisfaction of coming down all that way was much greater than the exhaustion we faced. We started off the day like any other day on the trek, except that we woke up in a nice, warm habitat instead of a minus fifty degrees bunker. It felt so nice and after eating toast, we were greeted outside by three baby yaks! They looked very cute and clearly wanted attention because they were shoving each other to get to us. It was hilarious, but we eventually left and began our long, six hour descent down to Namche, where I would have my first beef burger and where we had our rest day during our ascent. The walk started off downhill, which was amazing due to the fact the it was effortless and that the scenery was fantastic. It was very rocky going down, but it was ok because it was hardly cold and we were far ahead of everyone else including large groups of slow travelers. This downhill was great into we reached our first major uphill on the trek today. It was long and very exhausting because we climbed all the way down just to go up. Yeah, today was a very exhausting roller coaster of up and downhill😓🙍🙀 that made me kind of sick inside. Thankfully, it ended and then we began an even longer downhill for what was probably downhill for and hour. Yeah, roller coaster. It was awesome to see the scenery though and it was even better to see all the hikers climbing up the mountain😅😝!!! We then started another long uphill until reaching a very nice village about an hour from Namche. I don’t know what it was called, but it was the home of the head sherpa of Everest!! His name is Phurba and he basically hires all the sherpas(who set up the tents and stuff)and makes sure that they are alright. We went to meet him in his home, but he was hiking somewhere else. However, we did meet his very nice family!!! We met his wife, who was very nice and showed us her home and then we met his two sons who were also very nice to us. They were all very fun, but the most interesting and center of attention was the little girl who was one and hung out with us the most. She was very funny and did a bunch of funny things like riding a saddle and playing peek-a-boo with us! We also had a very good pizza there and went down to Namche after saying goodbye to our new friends. The hike to Namche was very peaceful and when we got there, we arrived at the hotel we stayed at last time. We were supposed to get our own rooms, but there was a delay so we all had to sleep in the prayer room of the hotel!!!!! The room was very fancy and actually was nicer than the other rooms. We also finally took hot showers and left to go to the bakery, where I finally had a beef burger😘🍔🍟😋! It was so good after what I went through and I had chocolate cake for dessert. We then went back to the hotel where we had a quaint dinner and went to sleep satisfied. Oh wait!! There’s something IMPORTANT I left out. When we got to the hotel, Ganesh discovered that he had left his phone where we slept yesterday and had to hike back all the way there😱😰💀!!!!! I felt so bad for him and he had to walk back the whole rest of the NIGHT to get back to where we were…

With Phurba’s family!