收到了参加国庆活动的 Pei 先生 的游记总结， 在这里给大家分享了
Day#1
The domestic terminal at Kathmandu is more like a bus station. We arrived at around 6:30am and waited for about 1.5hours to board a 24-seat plane to Lukla.
The flight is 30 minutes. The plane landed at a 500 meter uphill runway at 2800meter elevation. The porters are already waiting.
Kumar, our guide, and Gorbingta, my porter.
We started hiking at around 9:00am, Lunch at Phakding at around 2620m, and arriving at Monjo at around 3pm. Elevation is 2850meters. We are walking in the valley, crossing the river filled with the water from the glaciers.
The guest house at Monjo has a good view of a snow peak. I am not sure the name of the peak. Or perhaps I should say the guide told me the name but it soon slipped out of my brain.
Day#2:
Sleeping proved difficult for me. I had sore throat in the morning. To my horror, I discovered that I forgot the anti-biotic medicine again. This is what caused me to miss the peak of YuZhuFeng about 1.5 years earlier. I took a lot of Chinese herb for flu symptoms, knowing that the same herb did not do much help at YuZhuFeng.
We started around 7am. The only thing in my mind is to buy some anti-biotic medicine at Namche Bazaar, a relatively big town at the next stop.
I am lucky enough to actually find the medicine. This proved to be more psychological than the physical help. I eventually did not need this medicine for the entire duration of the trip.
We arrived and stayed at Kyenzoma at around 3pm, with the elevation at around 3550m. I had a very good sleep that night with the knowledge that I have anti-biotic in my bag.
Day#3
We started out again at around 7am. This is the day we crossed the tree lines, and into view of snow covered mountains. Surprisingly the temperature is warm enough. A lot of people are walking in their shorts.
Most of the day, we were walking in light rains. However, my glasses were still turned into very dark, by ultra-violet rays. The radiation is proved to be much stronger at this altitude. We reached Dingboche by around 4pm. Elevation is 4350m.
Day#4.
I had a good night sleep again at 4350m. No headache. No breathing problem. By 7am, I can already see people heading to the trails with shorts and t-shirts.
Today we said good by to the rivers and bridges and trees. The snow covered maintains replaced these items. However, the temperature is still very warm. I did not wear shorts and T-shirts. I had a single layer pants.
The uphill becomes noticeably slower. We reached Lobuche by around 4pm.
At Lobuche, we met a very large crowd at the guest house where we stayed. My room started leaking the moment I moved in. They made 2 repairs and eventually stopped the leak.
I was not able to eat as much as yesterday but the sleep is normal. No headache.
Day#5
There are only 2 restrooms at this guest house we stayed. There are 34 guests. With about 20 guides and porters, there are over 50 people fighting for the 2 restrooms in the morning.
For the first time, I wore 2 layers of pants and also started carrying hot water for the road.
Day#6
The guide knocked on my door at 5am, and informed me the cloud is thick, after raining and snowing the previous night. The chance of seeing Everest is next to zero at Kalapattar, which is a platform above Gorakshep at about 5546m. There will be about 350m elevation gain to scale before 7am, when is supposed to be the ideal time to view the Everest, if there is an opening in the cloud.
My headache is much lighter than the previous time when I was at 5000m in 2007 when I was trying to scale YuZhuFeng. The gradual gain in elevation perhaps helped a good deal this time. The sleep is good last night. I thought long and hard and decided to try my luck.
It turned out that my luck was not with me. The cloud would gradually get thicker. I managed to get a very dim picture of Everest just before the cloud made the visibility to less than 10 meters. I climbed to about 5500m by around 7am. The cloud made sure there is no point of keeping going up any further. I turned around and returned to the Gorakshep.
We packed our stuff and started descending to Dangboche. It is said that the temple at Dangboche offers the best view of Everest. Eventually, the rain stopped us at Pheriche, at 4250m elevation, at 1:30pm. We failed to reach Dangboche, by about 2.5 hours.
I really wanted to take a shower. The shower is also available, for about 400Rupee, or about 40RMB. Eventually my better judgment took control. Kumar also informed me he or any of his clients never took showers at more than 4000m elevation. I decided to take the shower at the next stop.
Day#7
Day#7 started with bad news. The rain continued through the whole night and into the morning. Eventually the rain continued for the entire day. This basically means that the Everest view is out of the picture for this trip because we will be hiking outside the view of Everest tomorrow.
Eventually I had this shower, after 7 days, at 3400m elevation at Namche. I went into my dreams, or perhaps nightmares, at around 8pm and woke up at around 5:30pm. This is the best sleep I have had in 7 days.
Day#8
The breakfast is potato and Veg, plus coffee. This is the last day in the mountains. My left ankle just started showing me pains. 8 days is just perfect.
Typically the requirement for leaving the mountains is to bring everything out of the mountain. For Nepal, it is different. They require you to bring all the non-biodegradables back to your own Country. What a requirement !
I finally had my first drink in 8 days at the small airport hotel. Kumar is cool. He claims this is the first time he managed to do the roundtrip of EBC in 8 days. He is not a junior. He has been working as a guide in Himalaya for 15 years.
图片拍的很美，感谢Pei 先生 与我们分享成果，也分享了一份心情
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that's realy nice trip!!
The urge to quit is the last obstacle between you and your dreams.
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