Firat Eren

From a series of dispatches from the Alpine Ascents 2007 Everest Expedition team.

A big hello again from Namche!

Today we had another nice day in the ‘big city’ before heading out of here tomorrow. More hot showers and internet. I even had a dental appointment and had my teeth cleaned! Where are we again? Anyway, tomorrow we’ll be heading onward and upward and those luxuries will slowly slip away.

After breakfast this morning we went for a stroll up to the Everest View Hotel. As you may have guessed we had great views of Everest as we sat having tea on the stone patio. Ama Dablam, Tawoche, Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Shartse, and Thamserku all sit either on the sides or head of the valley looking up from the Hotel. It’s more than impressive.

In the afternoon the team finished up some shopping and had tea with some of the people they’ve met in the village so far. Our trekking team, who were turned around on their first attempt to fly to Lukla, made it into Namche. Despite being a day late the team was all smiles and already joking about little things that have happened on the trail. Just after our trekkers pulled in the last of our climbers walked in with Pete Athans. Bill and Pete flew into to Lukla in the morning and made quick time catching up. So now the entire team is here waiting to be called to another tasty dinner from our hosts, Lhakpa and Sherap.

Amy Bullard and Ellie have been leading the trekkers so Pete will now take over from Amy and she will join the climbers’ trekking group. Tomorrow the climbing group will head to Thame while the trekking group takes an acclimatization day in Namche. We will all spend the following night in Thame together and then we will be all caught up and spend the rest of the nights on the way to BC in the same location.

We’re having a few glitches with sending photos but working on it- we hope to get them out soon.

We’ll be in touch!

All the best,
Dave