Back in Namche

Hello! We packed up our 15 yaks and left Ama Dablam base camp yesterday. From the sat phone reports presented on the blog you would have ascertained that we got up both Island Peak and Ama Dablam. We have experienced many colds and the khumbu cough has been particulary bad this year. Now all the mountains are obscured with mist and last night during our overnight stay near Phunki Tanga it rained a lot which must mean that it is snowing on the mountains. We arrived here in Namche this morning and have time to put some photos on the blog. We are resting here briefly as this afternoon we are walking on, heading for the village of Benkar tonight and then Lukla on Wedensday night where we have our flight booked to Kathmandu for the 8th. Everyone is doing fine. Poor Ewan has been on three courses of Anti-biotics over the part weeks but is quite upbeat. John is ace, Kathy loving every minute of the trek and happy to have climbed Island Peak.. Ed is talking about his girlfriend all the time so he is obviously doing OK. We also had news that Kambiz is back in the Uk so we all hope that his high altitude breathing hassles have gone away! Our Sherpas are doing great job and the yak drivers have been very reliable with all our loads. We are all fine and enjoying the last days of our trek. I would like to thank Eunice, Hannah and Cara for updating the blog with our Sat phone reports, well done and thanks, you have done an excellent job!

The above photo shows Ed, Lakpa, Kusam and Pasang( our climbing Sherpas) on the summit of Ama dablam, we arrived there at 0830am on the 2nd November and then got back down to Camp 1 by 5.30 pm the same day and the other photo shows Ed on the Mushroom Ridge!