EBC Day 14: We Did It!

Even after all that time together, I was still very impressed by Ishor’s intuition for when it would rain. It started to rain less than five minutes after he suggested we don our ponchos.

We were very surprised when we went up a hill to discover that we had already reached the entrance to the national park and the official end to our EBC trek.

After trying to escape the Himalayas by helicopter for a few days, we had resorted to Plan A: Hike the entire way to EBC and back.

Terri might have been disappointed, but I was thrilled that she was with us as we completed the official trek. This time around I was much more observant during our walk through the village of Lukla; I noticed that it had proper flat paving down its main “street” and evenly spaced stairs rather than the usual uneven steps made of rocks that we found in all of the other villages. It was so foggy that we couldn’t even see the runway when we walked past it.