Dingboche

After giving half our load to a sherpa in Pangboche we made our way up to Dingboche yesterday. The walk with such a light load was a pleasure compared to before and it was a nice day exept for the rain and fog that followed us along.

I have had a few exiting days up to now. It started with a cold, then turned into the runs, then got back to a cold and Filip ended up taking my pack for an extra 400 meters up a really unforgiving hill.

Now Ive been through a good dose of penicillin and I'm felling like new again. The weather is awesome and we are surrounded by beautiful mountains and can see the route up Island Peak that we intend to climb, it looks nice.

We will continue up to Lobuche in a few days and then dump our gear there to go to Everest Base Camp with only daypacks. Then back down and pick up the stuff and head into Lobuche Base Camp.

one more thing, at 4400 meters this is by far the speediest connection on the whole trip, pretty amazing! thank you sattelites!!!

Later!

johan.