All downhill from here...

So the last few days have been anywhere from 7 to 10 hour days. Pretty epic but unbelievable mountain scenery and postcard shots at every turn.

We overnighted in Porche last night and was able to talk with an expedition that is going to Ama Dablam. Pretty interesting and hard core bunch.

Today started with a drop of about 400 meters in a half hour, only to go up 500 meters in the course of the next 90 minutes. You know when you start talking to yourself, out loud, and bovine else is around. That you ate deep in the 'pain cave' But with all that is hard, the pay off of amazing views was well worth it.

So after about 6.5 hours we made it back to Namche bazaar and to the relative comforts that come with it.

It's funny to think that being at 11.000 feet would seem so easy to breath am have zero altitude effects.

The weather has really been outstanding. Unbelievable clear blue skies every morning, with building clouds in the late afternoon, and then down jacket time for dinner. Repeat every day. Terrific.

Headed to Lukla tomorrow (7 to 8 hours) and then flying out from there to Kathmandu the day after. It will leave a couple of days to explore and do some other adventures in the valley there.

The Sherpa people are so kind and bend over backwards to help and be supportive. A really big take away so far from the trip so far.

Mountain madness as evidenced by my self portrait shots.😳

Oh and a side effect of being high up for two weeks, going vegetarian. Eating meat above Lukla is not recommended as there is really not a way to maintain/freeze it and spoilage leads to illness. So no meat for me for the last 10 days and counting. I would kill for a meat lovers pizza at this point!