Sagarmatha or Bust
March 16, 2011
This very exciting thing arrived today: a map of the Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal…. aka the Mt Everest region, and more specifically: the hike to Everest Base Camp. Love maps, and have been staring and staring at it.
This is where we will eventually end up… before turning around to go back, but not before we get a good look at Mt Everest. The elevations are in meters, by the way. The EBC’s 5364 meters translates to 17,598′.
En route to EBC, we’ll climb the Cho La pass: 18,668′ and get one of the best views of Everest from a point of sorts: Kala Patthar: 18,176′
That will be amazing, if I’m not barfing all over the place.
And, of course, here’s Mt. Everest: 29,035′ (gasp).
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