everest base camp

Hi there, myself and my husband are trekking Everest base Camp on the same departure date, we are flying from Manchester (not booked the flights yet must get that done).

You should find everything you need to know in the Trip Notes, we have hired our 4 season sleeping bags from exodus very cheap £25.00, I,m not sure if there will be any snow to trek through but I have bought some mini spikes which fits onto your hiking boot just in case. You will also need a good down jacket and maybe some merino wool base layers for lower temperatures higher up the mountain.

 Your Practice Nurse will let you know which jabs you will need, and your GP can prescribe you diamox to take with you in case you start to suffer with altitude sickness. 

Hi thanks for your reply. We booked the trip a while ago, I am traveling with my friend Paula and her husband and also Margarita.

Paula and myself went to Kilimanjaro last year but I suffered alttitude sickness quite bad and was sent down by the guides. Paula was ok and made it to Gillmans point.

We also did Atlas Mountains in September and we both made the top along with Ian. I took Diamox on this trip and although sick at first recovered quickly.

We are flying from Manchester to join the group flight in London.

We are all very excited especially Margarita who has never done anything like this before.

We did the Yorkshire three peaks challange on Sunday which was very hard, it took us 11.40 mins.

Have you and your husband done anything like this before?

Hi girls, I am very excited, the time is coming and I am sure I will do it with the help of my friends Angela, Paula and Ian. This is the first time I am doing a long and challenging adventure. If this is okay I would like to do Kilimanjaro, but I will see. If you can't understand this message it is because my fisrt language is Spanish, (good excuse, haha) I am looking forward to this trip, and to get to know new people.

Does anybody speak spanish, or italian or portuguese??

Margarita

Hi Everyone, I'm Dawn and me and my partner Rich are also scheduled to fly out on 12th October (we had flights in in our package). Not long to go now. I'm already excited and I haven't even had my jabs yet! Anyway, here's to the trip of a lifetime.

Hi Dawn good to here from you. We also had the flights in our package but exodus arranged a flight from manchester for us and we will meet the group flight in London. Have you and your husband done anything like this before? 

Ang

My boyfriend Rich did Kilimanjaro about ten years, but the furthest I've got is the top of snowdon. We are gonna do Snowdon a couple of times before we go to train a bit. We just booked it because we thought it would be a cool thing to do, just got my jabs this week, we'll be boarding the plane to lukla before you know it!

Clive brenda Hi Angela, Paula, Mararita, Dawn and Rich sorry I have not replied earlier, had trouble logging in but have sorted it now. My Husband and I are really looking forward to the trip, I did Kilimanjaro last Sept it was amazing and all 12 of our group made it to the very top which made it for all of us everyone was so supportive and we all bonded right from the start. We are looking forward to meeting and getting to know everyone. We are booked in for our jabs on Thursday, not sure if I will take diamox again I passed a renal stone a couple of months ago it was extremely painful and diamox can cause renal stones. How's the training going! we are from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire and are claiming up and down Pendle Hill every Saturday morning in an attempt to get fit, if anyone lives close to Pendle Hill and would like to join us just drop us a line. we are regular walkers as we have three Dogs that need a lot of exercise. angela and Paula I have done the Yorkshire three peaks in the past and it is hard going especially in hot weather. Brenda and Clive

Hi Brenda and Clive, lovely to here from you again. It's good when you have a strong group like you did on Kili, we were the same at Atlas mountains there was 14 of us and all made it. When we went to Kili there was only Paula myself and one other person on the trip. We are all very excited about the trip and have been doing Snowdon and scafel at weekends. I have a little Jack Rusell and Paula has two little dogs as well so we take them out on Sundays to Buxton and sometimes Yorkshire, Malham Cove and places like that. We did do Pendel Hill na while ago not that far for us about 40 mins we are from Bolton area. Margarita is in Chile at the moment visiting her parents but yes it would be nice to meet you for a walk. Did you manage to book your flights are you going from manchester or london. We tried to get from Manchester but it was too expensive at the time they were charging us an extra £300 each as apposed to £65 to get to London. I know what you mean about stones i had a few a few years ago and had to have a shunt to get rid of them. I don't think I can manage without the diamox though as I suffer very bad with the altitude. We have not got round to sorting our injections yet but think we are mostly covered from the ones we had for Kili I will have to get round to getting the sorted. We are in the process of trying to decide how much we will need on the mountain per day everybody seems to have different ideas about. Ang  

Hi Ang, It must of been hard climing Kili with such a small group, I beleive in walking like a Snail and

drinking like a Fish when at altitude.  We are going up and down Pendle this Saturday 11th, we will aim to start at the Car Park in Barley at 8am. If you can join us that would be great. We are easily recognised we will have 3 Dogs with us a Golden Retreiver, Golden Doodle and a French Bull Dog. Hope to see you tthere.  We are flighing from Manchester to Heathrow on the 13.25 plane, same as you we thought it was too expensive to fly from Manchester.  We went for our injections, I was fine and didn't need any poor Clive needed 2 and complained for days that his arm hurt ( he is a softy) the Nurse also recommended we take DUKORAL a Cholera vaccine which might help with Deily Belly, it comes in 2 doses and she told us to take it about a month before  our trip. Clive also got some Diamox. We have not decided how much money we will need yet but unlike the Kili trip our meals are not included and there will be items we will be able to purchase from the villages on the mountain.  I beleive you can get  burger and chips and also coke.  I am not managing to get in as much training as I did last year, my rotas at work have changed I work nights and i am only getting a couple of nights off between shifts so feel tired alot, last year I was in the Lakes bagging a couple of mountains every Sunday and doing some long distant walks like the national three peaks, but this year I don,t seem to be able to get started. Brenda and Clive

Hi Brenda, we would have loved to come and meet you both on Saturday but I have to work. I also do not need any injections so thats good news, but we did wonder about the rabies injection. I don't think we are going to bother with it. We are flying on the 3.30 flight from manchester so we will be about two hours behind you getting to Heathrow. It's coming round so quick it's and we will be getting on that plane before we know it :))))) We are going to make an appointment to see the GP soon and sort the Diamox and also a course of antibiotics just in case. I don't work every Saturday so hopefully we can make arrangements soon. Ang

Hi all you lucky trekkers just logged in to see if anyone was doing this trip. I did this trip 4 years ago and it is amazing. I was 60 when I went and living in east anglia never had any hills to train on but I got all the way as did the other 12 members of our group. One or two never made it up Kala Patar that was brilliant what views of Everest from there. Just take it slowly and you will all make it. I hired a sleeping bag and down jacket from exodus and was glad I did it was really cold at night in the latter stages. It was the same time as you are going and the weather was brilliant, the early days tee shirts and shorts. We never had any rain or snow and the sky was clear and blue, sometimes low cloud mid afternoon but clear skies at night the mountains look fantastic when the moon and stars are out. All the lodges had showers albeit some were outside and electric points to charge up camera batteries etc. The food was good and all the lodges sold bottled water and chocolate. The one thing was at the airport going to Lukla we had a baggage limit of 15lbs or kgs can;t remember which so I made sure my bag and rucksac combined never weighed over. But I could have packed more as all they weigh is your bags no one had their rucsacks weighed. It was my first trip with Exodus and no one in our group could fault them, I have since been to Peru and the same again well organised. Well I hope you all enjoy your trip I know you will I just wish I was was going.

Hi Brenda & Clive, Margarita and me are going to do Pendle Hill tomorrow, we are starting from the carpark at Barley at 8am. I know you usually do it on Saturday so you prob been today.

I went to doctors on Tuesday and got my diamox etc and Margarita had her injections. We have decided not to bother with the rabies jab. It's very close and we are all very excited. Just making decisions of what we need to take against what we would like to take. We always end up taking far too much and not using most of it.

 Well if we don't see you on pendle hill it won't be long before we see you at heathrow :)))))))

Hi Slim thanks for your post, it's good to hear from someone that has done this trip. It sounds like you had an amazing time.

Hi All,

Managed to get in a couple of climbs up Snowdon on the Snowdon Ranger Path and the Llanberis Path.  Also went to Bournemouth and did West Bay to the top of Golden Cap follwing the coast path.  On these walks we managed to load my backpack with everything that we would have on trek so that we could get some training in.

We have another weekend in the Peak District at the end of September and this will be it before we go.  Hopefully, my fitness levels will be adequate by the time we go.

 Asked about laundry facilities on the way, as we want to pack light and wash stuff as we go.  We can give quick stuff a quick wash when we need to and let it dry outside our room, or on our daypack.  We were planning to wash t-shirts, socks etc as we go and was planning to take about 5 pairs of walking trousers, so I can alternate them to avoid pongs! We're also going to decant febreeze into a smaller spray so we can use this.

Look forward to meeting you all soon, only 6 weeks on Friday :0)

Dawn and Rich 

Hi Dawn & Rich, we have also done a couple of walks up Snowdon over the last few weeks. We usually do the Pyg track and come down the same way. I had a fall a couple of weeks ago on Snowdon I slipped on a wet rock and fell hard on to my back it has been really sore but seems a bit better today so fingers crossed it will have healed by the time we are going. I wouldnt worry too much about being pongy I think we will all be in the same boat!

Not long now it's coming round very fast :-)

Look forward to meeting you all. If you see us at Heathrow come and say hello, you can't miss us whilst we still have our suit cases, mines damaged and has pink and black tape all over it Safe journey everyone. Brenda and Clive x

Hi Brenda & Clive, we will prob miss your case as we get there a couple of hours behind you. You will defo know when we arrive you will hear us!

If you look out you will notice Paula and I have the same ruck sack and Ian has a red one. We are all 5ft nothing so just look for four midgets lol

We are ready to go now we all packed on Sunday.

Can't wait very excited, we will look out for you and clive at Heathrow. xx

Hi Dawn & Rich, are you also flying on the group flight from Heathrow?

 Looking forward to meeting you both see you soon

Ang x

Hi Ang, Rich and I will be on the heathrow flight, not looking forward to being on a plane for that long, the longest flight I have done is just over four hours, I will just have to see how we get on! Really excited now though, can't wait. Have got the day off tomorrow to sort out the house and pack. Checked the weather and can't believe the difference in temperature between Kathmandu and lukla. Looking forward to meeting you and the others. See you soon. Dawn and Rich