Island Peak

Date:

19.11.2008

Characteristic:

Hike

© Hannah Vickers After the exceptionally fantastic ascent of Lobuche East on my birthday, we had just one more peak to complete the 4-week trip around the Khumbu region of Nepal: Island Peak. Wednesday, 19th November 2008: Chukung to Island Peak BC After sleeping like a log for a decent 10 (or maybe even 11) hours, we began our journey to Island Peak Base Camp from the tea house in Chukhung under increasingly overcast skies, so it didn’t feel as warm as the previous day. It was a short 3-hour walk, which was immensely busy with climbing groups in comparison to the BC for Lobuche East . Once we arrived there was a luxurious mess tent waiting for us to dive into for hot drinks and lunch! It was kitted out with big, roomy chairs and a table laden with a huge selection of instant hot drinks :-) Amongst the selection of hot drinks were >>>

Lobuche East

Date:

17.11.2008

© Hannah Vickers Lobuche East was a memorable summit of a 4-week trip in Nepal. I joined a trip organised by a UK-based company (Adventure Peaks), it involved a lots of ups and downs (both physical and in the psychological sense!), much laughing and of course, spectacular views. But for me Lobuche East was the highlight of the trip because the ascent coincided with my 25th birthday .-) Sunday, 16th November 2008 Our approach walk to Lobuche East base camp was from Lobuche village, which was on the other side of the mountain. We had spent 2 days at Lobuche village after walking from Dzonghla, which was where we had stayed after our descent from the Cho La Pass. So to get back to the base camp, we were effectively retracing our steps from 2 days earlier, but not going as far back as Dzonghla. The base camp was >>>

Kala Pattar

Date:

13.11.2008

Gokyo Ri

Date:

09.11.2008