Day 4 - Tengboche 3860m

Another day of uphill hiking. Today I learned that going slow is easier on my heart and lungs. Small lesson to learn, took a few days though. It was inspired by a 54 year old woman named Sharon from Ireland who was going really slow but set the pace for us.

We hiked to Tengboche. We arrived at the lodge just in time to miss the rain. We settled into the living area and met some people. There was a group of girls from the US that were doing a guiding course and had all sorts of books about wilderness medicine and stuff. They were camping up to this point too. It was interesting to talk to them. One was an EMT, one was a backcountry ski guide, the other was a ski instuctor in Colorado. They had all sorts of cool stories.

One girl from the other group that went through the same trekking company, Alex, bought a bottle of whiskey and wanted to party. The EMT from the guiding group wanted to take her blood pressure to see how alcohol and altitude would affect it. It was all very entertaining.