43 me with what Shahid called the Everest shoulder; the path to the summit is from left to right in front of it, through the Khumbu Icefall
44 leaving Base Camp
45 view of Nuptse from my lodge room in Gorak Shep (5184m)
46 Nuptse, early on the morning of day 11
47 beginning the climb of Kala Patthar, Gorak Shep in the background
48 Kala Patthar and Pumori summits
49 Everest summit (with the cloud behind it) and Nuptse
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51 we had to turn around at this point to catch up with the rest of the group who had all descended from Gorak Shep when we left for Kala Patthar
52 Pumori
53 Christian with porters helping him down from Gorak Shep
54 Adam, Prakass, and Ama Dablam as we head down for lunch at Thukla
55 Ama Dablam viewed from the memorial site
56 yak
57 tents at Dingboche (4350m), end of day 11
58 day 12 morning
59 kids on their way up to Pangboche School, established by Sir Edmund Hillary
60 Tengboche Monastery (now we did have time to stop and it looked like this!)
61 Lama Sangwa Dorje left this footprint while meditating over 350 years ago; it supposedly prophesized the suitability of establishing a monastery here at Tengboche
62 ice on the way down to Namche (3450m) near the end of day 12
63 day 13: Christian with the porters who helped get him down from Gorak Shep to Dingboche
64 group photo outside Namche lodge, Kongde Ri in the background; starting with the back row: Martin, Peter, Nina, Christian, Isabelle, Tina, Katy, Peter, me, Haley, Denise, Colette, Kathy, Mandy, Angie, Adam
65 Dudh Kosi and a suspension bridge we had just crossed
66 you have to wait for dzopko (yak cow crossbreed) to cross the suspension bridges before you can cross
67 our plane to take us from Lukla back to Kathmandu
