Today Chhiring and I put on our big boy boots, harness, helmet and crampons. Then we took a stroll through the Khumbu ice fall practicing some glacier travel. Last time I passed through a glacier was almost two years ago climbing Mt Denali.
We witnessed the strangest thing coming back - a guy parachuting into camp! The Nepal army arrested him and fined him a large sum of money for Parachuting without a permit.
Parachuter lands at base camp -he didn’t want to waste any time talking to us because he didn’t have a permit and the military was looking for him.
Setting up the prayer flags for the Puja
Later that afternoon there was a very large Puja celebration with a local Lama - everyone in the camp participated. We drank tea and threw a powder called ashkata and asked for the Lama ‘s blessing. When it was over we drank coke and whiskey.
Tomorrow we will stay in camp and practice some rope skills using the jumar and crampons. We will also practice some repelling skills. Looks like we will depart camp on Tuesday to tackle Mt Lobuche.
Perfect Day for a Puja, sun was out!
That’s my helmet in the foreground
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Some of the tents at base camp