Day 1   9th May

"We arrived at Syangboche a small airstrip around 10,000ft up in the Kumbu Valley 20 miles or so from Everest. This was as high as we could go by chopper, being dropped any higher meant risking altitude sickness so the plan was to walk from here up to our base camp. The helicopter then flew on with all the equipment further up into the mountains where it was to drop off all our equipment with our porters in the village of Pheriche. Although flying helicopters into this National park is normally forbidden, except in emergencies, we were given special permission by the Nepalese CAA to drop our equipment as near to our base camp site as possible. ........."

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