Yesterday, we landed in the world’s most dangerous airport. I now understand why because I sat behind the open cockpit. The plane suddenly dove nose down without any landing strip in sight, until just before we would crash into the mountain, a strip miraculaously appeared (al hamd’allah!) and we landed safely.
Lukla at 2500m is cold, very cold. It is still quiete because it is off-peak season, few people dare to face the cold!.
A lovely 3 hour hike took us down another 200m. Yes, I know, the goal is to go to 6,200m but the slogan of Everest is “Everest; a little up and a little down”.
Today, it finally sunk in what I had got myself into with this hike/mounteneering adventure. At 2 PM, whilst being indoors, I was already feeling really cold in my 4 layers incl. light down jacket, but at 6 PM after my first ‘everest shower’ I was freezing…
Admittedly, I made 3 expensive freshmen mistakes:
1) Do not wash your hair with cold water. It takes hours to warm up your hands again
2) Do not forget to have your (travel) towel at arm’s length. Frantically searching your bag scarcely dressed in 5 degrees is not fun
3) Same for baby wipes (the alternative for a shower).
Cold regards, Ice Lollypop Linda…
Already insulting my language Dutchy 😉 Listen princess, you have better not take any kind of shower/shampoo unless you have access to a warm room afterward, and if that means 12 days without one or the other, so be it!
well at least i won’t be suffering from that with my bald head