Today was our first full day without our trekking friends. This was also the first night of the trip that I felt pretty bad!
My tent was slightly sloping downwards, with my head down and I had the worst pounding headache the whole night and the next morning, even though I had quickly switched my head to lie on the uphill side.
I’m very grateful to not have had any problems up to this point, and I felt so much better by the afternoon time!
After breakfast, I decided I needed to get moving, so I went for a walk to the start of the base camp (with the famous rock that says EBC). The base camp is very big and it can take up to about 1 hour to walk from one side to the other. It was nice to be able to walk alone for the first time, to choose my own pace, and to be with myself only. I love being with a big group but this was nice to be able to only focus on myself, and to have freedom on where and how far I walked.
I came back, and we had a delicious lunch in t-shirts, in the tent that felt like 45°C! Even though outside is usually about 10°C during the day, in the tents it gets SOOOOO hot!!!
After lunch I went to the CTSS camp to see Emma, who I had met through social media, a few months ago. She is also 17 and climbing Everest with her Dad! It was so nice to be able to connect with someone my age and her and her Dad, Sam were such interesting people that I’d love to get to know more!
At night after dinner I watched the many people that were headed through the Khumbu Icefall, which is the duration of the climb from Base camp to camp 1. They were most likely Sherpas, carrying tents and gear to fix the 4 camps above base camp. It is the most dangerous part of the mountain, and is climbed at night, when the ice is most frozen to avoid building-sized blocks to collapse along the route.
