Expedition Living

Everest Base Camp (EBC) is on a glacier at 17,500 feet.  Our campsite consists of North Face VE 25 tents for sleeping in, a dining tent, a communications tent  (which is not fully functional yet so I am hiking  down to Gorak Shep to jump on the internet), a gear storage tent, a cooking tent and a domed bubble tent for relaxing in (the Yoga lounge). Our tent platforms are hacked out of the glacier ice and for further fun, the glacier has rocks spewed all over it so rocks have to be moved and made into paths and steps to make getting around camp more reasonable.   Crowning the camp is our Chorten with strings of prayer flags strung over the camp in five directions. On the 8th we preformed our Puja ceremony blessing the climbers and asking the mountain...