Day 4 | Everest Base Camp Trek

Namaste. Namaste.

It is day four. We are leaving this village of Namche, which it's kind of sad because we've been here for two days and I really like it here.

Today we have a five to seven hour hike, depending on how we're feeling. If we're worn out by the time we get to Tembuche, we'll stop there for the night. If not, we can continue two more hours to Pangbuche and that's where we'll stop for the night. The elevation at. What's the elevation at Pangbuche is about 4,000. Okay. So if we keep pushing on today, we'll gain about 600 meters. Should be a long, hard, fun day.

There you go.

I got a new accessory yesterday, my very own buff, so I could look like Nate. Now we match. I'm gonna use it as a scarf to keep warm. I'm gonna use it to put over my face when it's dusty or stinky. Then when my hair gets super gross, I'm gonna use it as a headband.

So functional.

Cover up my greasy hair. But this morning we did something crazy.

That was awesome. We did something crazy. We both took a hot shower for.

The first time in four days for $3.

Totally worth it.

That's the Milk river that we pointed out a couple days ago. And right up here is the entrance to the national park where we were two days ago.

So far away.

We are hiking down to this river village right down there, then going all the way back up to the top of that back mountain to Timbuche.

So if we stop at our first place for today, we will sleep on top of this mountain. But if we keep going, I believe we'll go down the mountain and then up another one. How you feeling so far?

I feel good now that we're up here. Once we go down and back up.

It'S a little discouraging.

They need to build a big bridge that just goes right over.

We've been hiking for almost three hours. Time to stop for lunch. In case anybody's been wondering how we've been getting our water, Itrex set us up with these sweet purifying bottles so as Americans, our stomach can't take the Nepalese water. So we've been able to fill these bottles up either in a spring like this or like just straight out of the sink, put the filter in it.

Living off the land, clean water.

So far, four days and we haven't gotten sick, so I guess it works.

I got some veggie fried noodles again. They look even better than last time. We're also at a higher elevation where everything gets better, so I'll eat on there.

Even better. Oh good.

Soonam has brought out these green chilies. They seem to be very spicy.

He's given me no reason not to trust him so far and he said we should try.

Oh my gosh, it's so hot.

Oh, that is hot. My tongue is on fire.

It got way colder while we were eating lunch. Thankfully we're about to hike straight up so I'm sure I'll be sweating in like five minutes.

Carved up time to cross the bridge.

This is a windy bridge.

I've been told that these two hours will be some of the hardest. Two hours all the way to base camp. I think we ate way too many carbs. Yeah. Been very pleasantly surprised with how good the food has been on the trek.

So fresh.

I thought we were going to be roughing it but everything's been fantastic. Stuck behind a yak traffic jam. It's good though. Nice slow pace. Once again. I was starting to think the trail is getting hard. He's probably carrying 10 pieces of sheet metal. So much respect for these guys.

This morning we were climbing this trail crossing the ridge here and we hiked all the way back down to the river where we had lunch. And now we finally made it back above the trail that we started on.

Burning those carbs baby. We made it to Tengbuji.

Only took us an hour and 45 minutes. Straight up a mountain that was 500 meters tall.

Straight up.

I'm really regretting eating that massive portion of rice for lunch. Now we're climbing some more stairs to visit the monastery.

No pictures inside the monastery. Just have to take our word for it. It was beautiful inside.

Never thought about what monks wear during cold weather. I've only seen monks in Thailand and they're like orange cotton things here. They're lined with like sheep's wool. Feeling strong. So we're moving on through the town of Tembuche to the town of.

Pangbuche. Something similar that starts with a P. Should be about a two hour hike.

Glad we weren't on this bridge.

Sam.

Real yaks finally. All the other ones were like half cow, half yak. Those are full blooded yaks. We just started smelling this very strong smell and it's really smoky and we learned that it's burning yak dung.

That's how they keep warm up here.

Here's our tea house for the night. Oh, look at here.

Oh, what a view.

This is wonderful.

Kara, how do you like the room?

I love it. I have these really nice beds with these super cute floral sheets and a fluffy pillow.

And.

Plywood walls and porch, all plywood. It seems like it's new, like they just built it. So it smells like wood.

Does smell nice.

And we have the greatest view. We're at the top of the city overlooking all the mountains that we just climbed. I'm going to sleep really well tonight. It was a long day.

We just got changed into some warmer clothes, and I thought I'd show you the inside of the tea house. But I wanted to do some talking out here because it's really quiet in there. There's basically one fire that's been built in the middle of the room out of yakdung, and everybody's huddled around it. We ordered some amazing ginger lemon honey tea. It's like, seriously the best tea I've ever had. So we're just hanging out in there. Kara's working on the vlog. I'll show you around. Just want to do the talking outside.

That is dried yak poo.

I would push that down in there for you, but.

That'S awesome.

She always found somewhere to shop.

I feel like.

Hello.

I like your bangs.

Hope that's not a sign of things to come. What happened to your other horn?