14 Rest Day

Day-14 8th Oct-07: Rest Day at Dingboche (4360M)

As advised by my Lonely Planet Trekkers Guide book, I decided to take an extra day rest here to acclimatize for altitude. Though, I have not felt any discomfort whatsoever so far. My trek starting all the way from Jiri, too must be helping me. But I did see two cases of foreigners affected by it as they reached Dingboche. One was a Chinese guy who decided to wait it out here, but ultimately felt worse and had to abort the trek from Dingboche. The other guy a German (?) was feeling bad enough to descend with his guide to Pangboche yesterday itself ... but he reappeared here today, feeling quite OK and did finally reach Kalapathar/EBC too.

I didn't do anything special today (though some trekkers went on a side-trip up the Chukkung Valley). I just rested most of the day in my room, with a Sudoku Puzzle book. In the morning, I went around the pretty sizable Dingboche village and took some pictures of the surrounding snow peaks from the huge empty fields behind my GH room. Those are below and on the left column: