Burgers and fresh baked pie at Everest Base Camp!
Today we had a wonderful lunch of cheese burgers and fresh baked pie as all of our climbers arrived into base camp. Now that we have concluded our second rotation the team will enjoy a few days of rest and recovery at lower altitude. Tomorrow morning we have scheduled a Airbus B3e helicopter coming into base camp (weather permitting) to take members of our climbing team down to Namche. Right now we have the B3e making three trips to base camp to shuttle our team down valley. Over the next 5-6 days our team will travel back down the Khumbu to rest at a lower altitude before returning for the final summit rotation. Garrett discussed with the team that by doing this it allows you to come back stronger and perform better on the summit rotation. We discussed as a team today that we WILL NOT be summiting on the 13th of this month, which happens to be a Friday! 😉
Tonight we had a few laughs after dinner while watching Happy Gilmore. Now the team is getting some well deserved sleep!
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Burgers, fries and a Coke for lunch!
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Pretty impressive baking skills for 17,500ft!
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Jeff G. coming up toward Camp 3. You can see Camp 2 toward the bottom left.
Glad everyone made it back down safely and all are doing well. The pictures are amazing but I’m sure they don’t do it justice. Wishing all of you the best still on your climb ahead to the summit. Tom