Dia 12 High Camp - Pheriche (Everest Base Camp Trekking)
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- Distance
- 4.88 mi
- Elevation gain
- 531 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3,520 ft
- Max elevation
- 16,891 ft
- TrailRank
- 35
- Min elevation
- 13,855 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 3 hours 9 minutes
- Coordinates
- 761
- Uploaded
- August 23, 2020
- Recorded
- October 2019
near Chola, Province 1 (Nepal)
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Day 12
Trekking carried out in October - November 2019 with Javier Aznar and our guide Janga.
Today we descend. Unlike the days of ascent, going down is easy. You can see that the body has been getting used to the altitude and we walk at more than 4,000m as we would through the Pyrenees.
From the high camp we descend through the valley directly to the base camp. The path is good although steep.
This is rarely used since there is not much difference in elevation between the base and the height and normally the groups sleep in the town of Lobuche just as we did.
If there is a group of stores set up.
From here the road becomes flatter. We will skirt the hill and cross the path we followed a few days ago coming from Dzonglha.
In an hour and a half we will have planted ourselves in Dughla, another small food stall very frequented by people who are making the way up. We cross the drainage river of the Khumbu glacier passing between rocks and shortly after we descend towards the plain of the river.
From here the landscape changes a lot. We find areas of crops with houses that are not yet dedicated to tourism. The road is flat and pleasant, we see Pheriche in the background with the imposing Ama Dablam on our horizon.
Pheriche is the first proper town since Gokyo.
We will sleep at the Himalayan Hotel. After 10 days we will be able to shower with hot water, we will change our clothes and we will enjoy a beer and a meal.
In Pheriche there is also an American volunteer hospital:
http://www.himalayanrescue.org/
That they do a very important job taking care of the health of porters and Nepalese.
We went to deliver the medicines that we had left over from the climb (antidiarrheals, edemox, paracetamosl etc ...). They would also help us decisively the next day by lending us their satellite phone.
Without knowing what would happen, we had dinner with Janga playing board games, we went to sleep, happy to have reached the top.
Trekking carried out in October - November 2019 with Javier Aznar and our guide Janga.
Today we descend. Unlike the days of ascent, going down is easy. You can see that the body has been getting used to the altitude and we walk at more than 4,000m as we would through the Pyrenees.
From the high camp we descend through the valley directly to the base camp. The path is good although steep.
This is rarely used since there is not much difference in elevation between the base and the height and normally the groups sleep in the town of Lobuche just as we did.
If there is a group of stores set up.
From here the road becomes flatter. We will skirt the hill and cross the path we followed a few days ago coming from Dzonglha.
In an hour and a half we will have planted ourselves in Dughla, another small food stall very frequented by people who are making the way up. We cross the drainage river of the Khumbu glacier passing between rocks and shortly after we descend towards the plain of the river.
From here the landscape changes a lot. We find areas of crops with houses that are not yet dedicated to tourism. The road is flat and pleasant, we see Pheriche in the background with the imposing Ama Dablam on our horizon.
Pheriche is the first proper town since Gokyo.
We will sleep at the Himalayan Hotel. After 10 days we will be able to shower with hot water, we will change our clothes and we will enjoy a beer and a meal.
In Pheriche there is also an American volunteer hospital:
http://www.himalayanrescue.org/
That they do a very important job taking care of the health of porters and Nepalese.
We went to deliver the medicines that we had left over from the climb (antidiarrheals, edemox, paracetamosl etc ...). They would also help us decisively the next day by lending us their satellite phone.
Without knowing what would happen, we had dinner with Janga playing board games, we went to sleep, happy to have reached the top.
Waypoints
Waypoint
Provisioning
Mountain hut
13,958 ft
Pheriche
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