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Last but not least, these are the pictures from Heleens camera - the tiny sexy Canon thing, not my bulky Sony. Some of them were taken because the Canon was most handy, others because the Sony's memory cards were full, and still others, well, just because I usually don't take pictures of myself. (A lot of them are rather ''fun ...

Day 9: Everest Base Camp! The ''nec plus ultra'', both figuratively and literally, of our trekking was finally within reach: 4 hours from Gorak Shep to reach Everest Base Camp!   Garlic Delight  ''Garlic Man'' learning about different ways to disguise the taste of garlic - but not the smell, unfortunately for us ;-) ...

Day  5: Thyangboche - Dingboche After getting up and straight away getting a ''natural high'' from the view of Everest through the window, we got up to finally get into the ''real'' trekking at some decent elevation. First though, the day started with a nasty descent from Thyangboche down to the river... Fun ...

[Note: As we did the EBC trekking in the company of a bunch of Californians who don't speak anything but English 8-] (as far as we found out, at least) we'll try and make sure they can read this and the next few blog posts. Anything that is in Dutch is, of course, about them.By the way: on this and all other pages, if you want to see a full-screen ...