It’s a very good thing that I did not see Everest as a young man as the grip of the dream may have had me then as it has now. But back then It would have been more dangerous. The trip is not entirely over yet as today is Friday and we do not fly out of Kathmandu to Singapore until Sunday. We will have one or two days in SG to collect supplies before returning by bus across the channel to the boat. But I can tell you this. Seeing Everest is going to be the highlight of the trip for me. It is so majestic, so spectacular, so imposing, that you would think it so close you could touch it.

From our perspective at Everest Base Camp, the closest we came to the mountain, the sign said it was fifty miles away but you looked for reasons for it to be closer, but there were none, except for its amazing volume. If Everest could speak, it would say come to me.

The mountain was partly covered with clouds sometimes and we saw it from several different angles but base camp was the best.

Randal