Today we started out early for a 4 hour trek up the glacial morraine to our destination of Gokyo where our first main goal, Gokyo Ri, awaits. Only an hour from Machherma we encountered a porter who was sitting on the trail looking fairly ill. After speaking with him for a few minutes Dawa and our two resident medical personnel (see photo) determined that he was suffering from the flu or a cold and gave him some ibuprophin and Carly and Jonathan walked him back to a rescue clinic at Machherma. The rest of the day was without event, and we arrived at our teahouse in Gokyo in the early afternoon to continue our acclimatization. A pleasant surprise was Pasang, who met us down the trail from Gokyo with a thermos of milk tea and some biscuits. Thanks Pasang!
Tonight we slept at 15700 feet with mixed success. Complicating matters, the air in the teahouse was filled with yak dung smoke, an acrid smelling and vile aerosol. I have attached a photo looking toward Gokyo from the Third Lake. The peak in the distance is Cho Oyu (a quite impressive sight and over 8000 meters tall!).
(composed Nov 12, morning)
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