It was quite an interesting day as I was at the final destination of my journey – the Everest Base Camp. After walking more than three hours, off-course very slowly, we reached the camp. It was 70 per cent walk on hilly ridge and other on the top of Khumbhu glacier. It’s quite amazing to see a large amount of ice cake-topped by rocks.
Everest Base Camp held nothing for me except the feeling that I was indeed there and the crunchy ice itself. I climbed up to a small pinnacle of ice and touched the ice with bare hands. It was quite cold but worth experiencing.
We had a mock-start of the Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon and it was over in 10 minutes after the health check-up of every participants concluded. Our two doctor friends were quite busy.
It was interesting to see a sizeable number of local girls participating. The foreigners were quite enthusiastic that they made it to the base camp.
Although I and Bikash had an option of staying at the base-camp I insisted we should return because I was not quite willing to get a bad sleep in a tent at a cold place. We returned to Gorak Shep but the journey was quite painful for both of us.
Bhaskar and Deep left for Pheriche and will head to Tengboche tomorrow while we will move to Thukla tomorrow.
The loveliest thing for today was that we began our return journey and the most exciting thing was that we made it to the Everest Base Camp (Oh my god!).
