737 Leg 7 Everest - Day 128

We flew to Delhi on Saturday then on to Kathmandu. Steve, Dai our Cameraman (who for the purposes of my blog will be named as Dai Camera) and myself didn’t sleep that well on flight but our excitement is getting us through! We met our Jagged Globe team and have been talking itineraries. It’s finally starting to sink in really now. Have been planning for this moment for so long and now it’s come around and we are very excited.

We then flew in to Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla airport in the town of Khumbu, Solukhumbu district in Eastern Nepal.

We got 4 out of 5 bags and had to wait for the last one, which was on a different flight. The runway and landing was genuinely scary! Lukla airport is one of the most dangerous airports in the world and I can see why! We met our sirdar (local head of porters) and were due to have a 5-hour trek up to Monjo where we would sleep. Monjo is at 2835m. As we had to wait for our bags and started late we’ve stopped in Phakding overnight at 2670m. We have eaten well, local dishes. Tomorrow we trek to Namche.

We are hoping to bump into the guys who all signed up for the 737 Challenge Everest expedition. Due to our delays on the North Pole most had to start their trek to Everest Base Camp ahead of us but we are hoping to meet up with them at some point. We have their itinerary and we are trying to work out ours so we bump in to them on the trek up to base camp.

Steve and I have enlisted Dai Camera to our Top 5 club which is already causing a few disagreements on what should be in each Top 5 ha ha!

Speak soon guys.