At Everest Basecamp!

Tonight will be my 4th night here! So far I went up to Pumori high camp which is around 18500 ft. Hiked there with a sherpa named Nima and Raj (55 yr old indian man working on his last of the 7 summits). Apart from that I have been going for brief hikes to the EBC entrance sign and slightly further.

Was pretty anxious upon arrival to EBC as I couldn’t believe how hard it was to breathe. Even walking 10 feet to the toilet would take my breath away. But each day it has gotten a better and better. I started diamox at 125 x2 which also seemed to help.

So far so good. $BTC @ $66k

Everest packing list

The stuff

• -20 degree Marmot sleeping bag (in stuff sack)
• 1 black diamond helmet
• 1 black diamond expedition mitts
• 1 down booties
• 1 Drylite towel
• 1 pee bottle
• 1 thermarest pillow
• 70cm BD ice axe with rubber grip
• 1 Himali XL downsuit in stuff sack
• 1 Himali medium down jacket
• Arcteryx shell pants + shell jacket
• Rab -40 sleeping bag
• Down pants
• Thermarest Neoair xtherm NXT blowup mat
• Theramrest Mat
• 1 Outdoor research cirque 2 pants, 1 Arctyerx Gamma Pants (2 Pants)
• 4 over the calf boot socks + 2 other socks + 2 sock liners
• Black Diamond Guide gloves
• Patagonia retro jacket
• 1 outdoor research liner gloves
• 1 heavy balaclava and 1 light balaclava
• 1 rab liner gloves
• rab light + heavy balaclava
• 4 base layers
• 1 rab waffle top
• 2 light leg base layer, 1 medium leg base layer
• 1 light buff + 2 medium buffs
• 2 medium hats
• 5 hand warmer packs (2 warmers in a pack)
• 2 head lamps that take 3 triple AAAs each
• 1 pack of wet wipes (36 wipes)
• 2 pairs of glacier glasses + 1 pair of sunglasses
• 32 oz thermos
• Big down puffer (mountain hardware absolute zero)
• Lots of Spring energy gels, meal gels, and bars
• 2 tape slings 10mm 120 cm
• dynamic 8.9mm rope 2m
• 6mm accesorry cord (One is 5m the other is 7.6m)
• 6 screwgate carabiners some small and some large
• 2 bent carabiners
• 1 belay device
• 1 ascender
• 1 harness
• la sportiva olympons mons s boots + an extra set of liners
• Petzl crampons
• box of LMNT
• 2 32 oz nalgene bottles + 1 water bottle parka
• 2 sporks
• 1 collapsable bowl
• 1 cup
• goggles with an extra lense
• camera+ inreach mini
• Adaptor
• solar panel + battery pack
• extra Garmin