Day 8-Dingbouche to Lobuche

Another fantastic day, I could not sleep so was up very early and packed before the light was up, It had rained heavily again at night buy by day break it was clear and the mountains were putting on a show, I had read a book the night before about the flora and fauna in the region and it mentioned that snow leopards have been seen in the hills above where we were staying, Amazing and i kept my eyes on the distant peaks for any sights of life, Birds seen today were alpine chough very close with a pied wagtail and great views of 2 lammagier that cruised by and down the valley, The trek was great and extremely scenic only having a difficult 1.5hrs after lunch and then the last strech through moonscape landscape where we saw a small rodent called a pica very close, it has been another fantastic day, Every day has got better and better, We are close to 5000m and we all are doing great, A very very tough day tomorrow as we leave early to get to Gorek Shep which used to be the old base camp, Drop our gear and climb to the peak of Kala Pathar which is going to be our highest point at 5545m

Zsuzsa from Hungary (probably spelt wrong so please correct me)

The trail was very busy in places

 Some of the gang

 Diarmuid and Ciaran (The Irish crazies)

 Ciaran with Top guide Pasang

 Diarmuid with the lovely Chomba

 Yaks and Mountains are a top photographic combo

 Yours truly

 Shooting me shooting you

 Monuments to the lost mountaineers and Sherpa's

 The landscape changes as we walked along where a glacier used to be

Dave