Today we trekked up to Tengboche Monastery then onto Pangboche to spend the night at 3900m. It was a long day – six hours of trekking and some long tough climbs too. During the morning and early afternoon, the sun was very strong, and I think this caused the headache I had that afternoon. Still after some paracetamol it had gone by dinner.
Most of the villages we passed grow potatoes, so unsurprisingly these are forming a staple of my diet (which makes a nice change from rice!). In addition to daal bhat, I have been eating a lot of potatoes and eggs. Chhatra informs us that because everyone in the mountains are Buddhist, they are not allowed to kill animals (although they will mostly happily eat them once dead!). This means the meat available has been killed a few days below Lukla, and carried up on the back of porters – for this reason, I will be vegetarian for the trek (hence all the eggs for protein)!
We saw the Australian, George (who Chhatra knew from a past trek and whom we met at Kathmandu airport) and his group again today. He is finding it tough because of arthritic back pain and a possible ear infection, but remains positive and determined as ever!
In the evening we met some climbers from Georgia
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