Lobuche Summit

Making it to the summit of Lobuche was much harder this year! It took almost an hour longer, mostly because the rock slab lower section had an inch of new snow on it making it very slippery and slow.

We said goodbye to the trekkers in our group a few days ago. It was hard to part, even though we so recently became friends. We all shed a few tears as one of the climbers parted with his wife on the trail. It’s how Judy and I thought we’d have to do it last year, but instead we had the romantic helicopter farewell.

Now, I’m back at EBC where we’ll rest for a day, then ladder practice!  I love it!

Here’s the latest addition of the family photo.  Hopefully I can get it to the top of Everest, almost two miles higher than where I’m standing in this photo!