Lukla, Namche and Nausea

As you can probably tell it's a bit remote up here an I'm struggling to find decent communication channels. I'm also pretty ill at the moment but no panicking required whatsoever. We flew out of Kathmandu on Monday headed for Lukla in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Lukla Airport

We had a 5 hour walk to our first pitstop for lunch and I caught some viral infection from some 'boiled' water. Projectile vomiting (and the rest) for the last couple of days which hasn't been great. The scenery has more than made up for it though but the trekking is fairly hardwork (even without the viral infection). We stayed overnight in a clearing in the forest which was lovely and the following day we walked 14km to Namche Bazaar.










Namche is a hilltop village at 3400 so we have a couple of people showing signs of mountain sickness but on the whole we're all doing well. The weather has been beautifully sunny during the day and freezing at night.

We're acclimatising here in Namche for today so we went for a walk to 4000m to check out our first view of Mt Everest, Lhotse and Ama Dablam. I'm lost for words to describe how majestic the view was and I doubt that my photos will do it justice. I've taken 700 shots since we left London so I'll filter them and post them when I get back. So, tonight we stay here in Namche and tomorrow we head up to Tengboche which is another 800m in altitude but will take us most of the day to reach. Hope all is well and here's hoping I feel better tomorrow :-)