We were the only guests in the tea house at Khumjung, and so joined the family sitting around the fire, watching Nepalese TV and listening to stories by the father, a sherpa who climbed almost to Everest’s summit, and who witnessed the avalanche yesterday that sadly killed some sherpas at Khumbu Ice Falls.
We ate breakfast in their kitchen the following morning, the kids still sleeping by the fire, before our easiest day yet, an hours walk downhill back to Namche Bazar. I had a shower, the first in many, many days, and walked into town to experience relative civilisation including internet, pringles and burger and fries (albeit a vegetarian burger, if you saw the meat the sherpas carried up the mountain, you would be going for the vege option too).
-Sarah
Sarah