Yet again fresh snow fall overnight with me in awe of the monastery surroundings grabbing the Cannon pre breakfast and having a walkabout - a photographer’s dream.
Following the Khumbu Valley further down we took a right hand turn which became the road I had run 2 weeks prior out of Namche. Passing the array of Ghompas (the religious memorials without the human remains associated with the more formal Stupas) the path undulated into Namche where we stopped for lunch and some final shopping.
Being at this spiritual place coupled with the snow cover in spring of all times gave it a magical feeling. I asked the formaidable landlady of the tea house if it was usual for it to snow in spring to which she answered ‘absolutely not, it never snows here in spring’ in keeping with the theme of us being very lucky in very unlucky (cold) circumstances.
After breakfast we quickly descended 400ms and below the snow line into warm sunshine. I was pleased to be back into the thick of the real Nepal where the families were all out and about which I’ve missed in the circus up top.
Sheilesh though was nervous again and kept on muttering that ‘the weathers is not really happy’. As a result, we curtailed lunch and set forth with the rain now falling for the first time on this trip. 2 hours later and after crossing the double suspension bridge we arrived into Monjo all soaked notwithstanding my new goretex.
We had the full suite of weather today, rain, snow and sunshine covering a good 18k dropping 1,000ms from 3,8 to 2,8.
day 14 video: https://youtu.be/rcRL54hABTw
day 14 video: https://youtu.be/rcRL54hABTw
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