Chip is now well into his charity climb and enjoying every minute of
it. He has made new friends and so far avoided any problems except
migraines at night. In this update we have more images from chip and a
report in his own words.
Dear all
5pm Friday, kit check for everybody outside in the garden. Was very
enlightening, the head Sherpa came over gave us a brief outline about
tomorrow then took us all for tea in Tamul traditional food ( rice)
quick beer and in bed at 9.30pm. night xx
Sat Morning
6am feeling totally refreshed after a good night sleep, jumped in
taxi to airport and boarded our propeller plane, had 16 seats and was
very cramped, it was like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark!!
Landing at Lukla Was out of this world, flying through a valley heading
straight for a rock face with a short Tarmac runway in front of it . (No
room for error) the pilot landed us safely and we all met our team of
Sherpas or as they looked to us young boys, with yaks (cow looking
donkeys) the Yaks were soon loaded and the trek began. Dusty rocky
pathways that you would not believe cattle could navigate wind through
small villages over rivers and past clusters of small stone houses
(shelters) dotted around the valleys. Weather has been glorious every
day clear blue sky’s with slight cloud cover in the afternoon. I have
not experienced sunlight quite like this its so intense and bright,
altitude has been proven to bring on migraines (for those who suffer)
and i cannot be outside in the sunlight without sunglasses. Kemee our
head porter told us that he experienced a man loose his sight at the top
of Everest because he took his sun glasses off. (Scary) Food in the T
houses at lunch time is garlic soup followed by noodles or rice, evening
meal, again soup (tonight was mushroom and garlic ) such variety!!!
followed by dim sum or yak meat curry and veg, actually very nice!!
breakfast is porridge. Everybody is feeling the altitude which is a very
strange experience and am not going to try and explain it now. My
fellow trekkers are mixed ages and i’m an average age, but far from
being average. We are all getting along very well and i have bonded very
well with Vic Reeves, such an odd individual much like myself, lol.
Monday Morning
Not sleeping well at all, jet lag and high altitude are messing
around with sleep patterns, on a good night I got 4 hours sleep . The
team are all suffering with different problems as the days go on, my
only issue at present are migraines. Not been sick with them and they
hit me at night during the day I’m fighting fit. I don’t claim to be
super man but nothing we have done so far has challenged my physical
ability. Clearly far fitter than I gave myself credit for. Very
surprised to find wi-fi connection at 3850 m where these Nepalese people
live such a simple life.
Today we had a acclimatisation day where we climbed up during the day
but have returned back down to the T house that we stayed at last night
. This will help us achieve greater heights tomorrow . Night night xx
You can still donate to chips charity at
http://www.justgiving.com/PMD-Everest-Challenge
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