Everest Base Camp Trek: Grom and Team Reach Lobuche
Hello again from Nepal -
Today was another beautiful day here in the Himalayas albeit just a little windy.
The team had breakfast and lots of coffee and hit the trail just around 8am. It was enjoyable hiking in the warm of the sun except for when the wind would howl a bit.
It was a relatively short day as we bumped up to just over 16’000ft. It took the team about 4.5 hrs to make it to Loboche, named after the mountain that looms above us. Along the way we pass over Thukla pass where there is a memorial to those lost on Everest over the years. It’s a pretty somber place with over 50 chortens built in memory to the climbers.
Once at our new tea house we had lunch, napped, and then walked over to view the Khumbu Glacier, wehere we could just barely make out Everest Base Camp far off in the distance.
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the BC Crew!
