Nov 17 - to Namche

We awoke today to a funeral pyre. The body of a 37 year old woman who had died drinking(?) was carried to a nearby hill and burned. We watched from down in the valley and then ordered breakfast at our teahouse. We were in no hurry since our trip to Namche would be an hour or so.

After breakfast we walked to the next village where a medical clinic had been set up by Sir Edmund Hillary in the 1960s. While there, we met a Sherpa named Nima who is a good friend of Eckart Lemberg of Boulder who encouraged Barbara to run the Everest marathon and met Sharon while having shoulder surgery. Nima was accompanied by Chuck, a very nice guy from the Boston area where Darin went to grad school. Chuck had spent his youth in Colorado! Then we were treated to a tour of the clinic by a Sherpa doctor who happened to be a classmate of Dawa! Small world.

Then a short trek over to Namche from where I am composing this blog entry.