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Month: October 2019

Gokyo to Everest Base Camp: returning to Salleri

Posted on October 18, 2019March 15, 2025 by ianraitt

Sunday January 13th, 2019. Amazingly this is Day 18. Coming down is all part of the experience, and allows a retrospective contemplation, but while most trekkers stop at Lukla, and then take a plane ride back to Kathmandu, with more time on our hands we have elected to walk out to Salleri, the way we…

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Gokyo to Everest Base Camp (part 2)

Posted on October 16, 2019March 15, 2025 by ianraitt

Lower altitude permitted some sleep last night. It is snowing, and all views have disappeared, only the sense of the gulf down to the river. Quiet, with that sense of mystery and stillness. After a steep rise, the path is contouring round. A yak follows us. There are footprints in the snow, but surely not…

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Gokyo to Everest Base Camp (Part 1)

Posted on October 15, 2019March 15, 2025 by ianraitt

5th January 2019A gentle sense of achievement flushes the veins, as in the bright air we start to descend: there will be scalding soup at Gokyo, and in gradually waning afternoon light, views will open up besides frozen brooks. Colder air, wisps of mist condensing, calm silence; only busy ducks will forage in the waters…

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Ian, the Scot

A Scot who lived in five continents, now using some free time to attempt some of the classic treks in Nepal, where he lived before. As well as contemplating why we like to move through majestic three dimensional geometry, there could be some reflections on life“s higher altitude.

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