A partially lucky day as we could see glimpses of mountains in the morning and on our way to Dingboche. We would see a part of it and would constantly raise our eyes to see more but soon fog would reigned and we would be robbed of the chance to experience mountains.
The journey today was easier as it was just around four hours of walk from Pyangboche and not much steep uphill. We walked through rocky hills, sometime on wide nearly flat land but mostly on narrow trails.
It was cool due to cool soft breeze. It wasn’t strong but hit our neck giving us slight headache.
Dingboche is a small village with nothing to do. We were staying in a lodge called Kala Patthar which hadn’t enough solar power to charge batteries. I have to move to another lodge for that. The discounted rate for one hour was Rs. 350. The lodge was owned by Phindi Sherpa, a four-time Everest summiteer who also owned a trekking agency in Kathmandu.
When you are en route to Mt Everest base-camp, then there are high chances that the Sherpa you are talking to or loitering around is an Everest summiteer.
Bhaswor and I went down to river bank, 15-min steep downhill walk from Dingboche. The reason we were there was the relieve ourselves from the bowel pressure as we find the toilets in the lodge we were staying too difficult to do that. Toilets would be a major concern for anybody during the walk but in most of our stations we find okay toilets with panes. But in some places, we just have to use the holes. We also took some pictures of ourselves.
For dinner, I chose potato-pancake, a special dish of Sherpa. It was okay but wasn’t at all like that I had hoped for.
The night is probably the most interesting of the our trek as the leader of the group that is going there for the marathon was a jolly good man. Suresh Yonjan ‘Damche Dai’, a so-called former hippie and science graduate, was good at music too and sang a lot of songs including that of Bob Dylan – a singer whom I loved. We all plus two doctors – Bidhan and Chhitiz enjoyed singing until late night.
