Friday 9 November 2007

Back in Kathmandu




Hi, we are all safely back in Kathmandu... arrived here yesterday from Lukla, we were very fortunate to get our flights out as we have heard that today there has been no flights to or from Lukla and its certainly raining here in Kathmandu so it must be snowing at higher altitudes.


It's deepwali festival in Nepal and its like Christmas with millions of fairey lights everywhere, there are also lots of candles burning on every house doorstep and mandalas being drawn out along the streets. There is a photo of one such mandala here. The other photo shows Ed Woolaston abseiling above camp 2 on Ama Dablam.

All our expedition members are doing OK and we are packing and getting reday for our international flights home tomorrow afternoon. We have jsut had big fairwell meal with all our sherpa staff at the Ying Yang Thai restaraunt and are now about to head back to our hotel for the night!
Ed had tried to get a standby flight out today, but after waiting at the airport for ages, there were no seats available, but he is orgnised and has flight back to the UK with the rest of us tomorrow night.
While we have all enjoyed our time here in Nepal we still have tons to do back home so we are ready for that.

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