This town even had an Irish pub in it so guess where we spent our free time. The next day we would be staying there for an acclimatisation day with a small trek to the national park where we saw our final destination Mount Everest just teasing us by saying ‘I am here - what you waiting for’ but we knew it wouldn’t be that easy. We reached Nachme Bazaar by 4pm at a height of 3400m the doctor took our oxygen levels and blood pressure - we were fine. The first few hours were relatively easy as it was flat or down hill but after lunch it became steeper and slow going having to avoid not only the other trekkers coming down but mules and Yaks who deliver supplies up the mountain. The next day we were trekking to the Sherpa capital a place called Namche Bazaar, this would take 7 hours. We had to trek over a suspension bridge which was scary for me as I have a fear of heights well falling from a height. It took about 4 hours to get to the lodge where we were staying that night the weather was hot. That night we went to bed early as we had to be up by 5 to be at the airport to fly out to Lukla airport, an airport within the mountains with such a small runway, one mistake from the pilot and its game over.Īfter arriving there we met our Sherpas and started off on our trek to Phakding which is roughly 2,650m. When we arrived at Kathmandu we had 2 days in the city to do a bit of sightseeing, we went to the Boudhanath Stupa the biggest Budda Shrine in the world. The flight was roughly 11 hours with a change over at Delhi airport. ![]() ![]() On the 10th March I set off to Heathrow to catch a plane to Kathmandu with 8 other complete strangers to trek to Everest Base Camp. What more could you want?Įverest Trip - March 2016 By Neil Wheeler A good night out, not too far to travel and a reasonably priced event with pubs locally to visit after the race to celebrate. Congratulations to Jess for winning the ladies category, Phil for winning his age group and the ladies winning the ladies team. The last person coming in at just before the hour mark meant the presentation could be done very promptly. They had also laid on a drink station at half way and, as I said before, free tea and coffee. The route well signed posted and yes, there were a few hills on the course, but nothing to bad really. Unfortunately for Pewsey Running Club there were only 38 people taking part in this race which is hard to understand as the cost was very reasonable. The length of them was right no one got to see my belly which everyone would be glad about, and it was comfortable to wear and it was easy to see which club we were from with the club name on the back. Karina and I were testing out the new running vests, from my point of view a lot better than the older version. In total there were 10 of us - see the photo below. When I arrived Pete and Matt Wragg were already there and the other members started to turn up within the next half hour. This is a very cheap race at £6.50 okay so no medal, no t-shirt but you can help yourself to free tea and coffee and if you are fast enough you might win a prize. On the 1 st August some of the Marlborough Running Club members decided to enter the Stripped Back Bustard run hosted by Pewsey Running Club.
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