Last night was the hardest night for me so far in the tour. After I slept for about an hour, I was woken up suddenly by the feel of heat inside me. I removed my jacket and inner woolen coat but the feeling of heat and restlessness didn’t go away. Whenever I tried to close my eyes, I felt like the whole world is spinning in my head.
It was, I believe, a mixture of lack of oxygen, feeling of home sickness, uneasiness in sleeping in a small room barely enough for two small beds and, most probably, the gastric-growing dinner last night caught me. I took a Diamox (tablet used to cure the high altitude sickness) on Bikash’s advice, had to go to toilet for two times during night but before I could sleep for five more hours from 1:00AM.
When I woke up in the morning, I was feeling alright with a little headache on back.
After tea and biscuit at Lobuche, we went up to a small hill. Although all of us were tired and experienced suffocation last night, we found that Deep and I were most troubled.
At 10:30AM, smiling Prakash arrived with the porter boy. We all ate lunch and started our journey to Gorak Shep, the last stop before the Mt Everest base-camp. Despite our advice to stay at Lobuche, Prakash decided to walk up with us.
The way that took us three hours was rocky but only one steep uphill walking. Prakash looked too tired, we even considered sending him back but he insisted he would come. Once at Gorak Shep, he vomited and doctors advised him to descend. Bik Raj accompanied him back.
I was little dizzy and decided to sleep. On and off, I slept for three hours before dinner. I am lot better than yesterday night but not on best of my health. A little headache and dizziness is still reigning on me. I hope everything will be fine by tomorrow morning.
