Greetings All,
We've had a good stay in Pheriche, getting our clinic supplies inventoried and up the trail to EBC with porters and yaks. We enjoyed a celebratory dinner (meeting the HRA Pheriche staff celebrating Tayloe and Kristins' 6th anniversary) at the Himalaya Lodge in Pheriche. Yesterday we went along with one of the Pheriche doctors on a follow-up house call on a yeak. The yak had been attached by a snow leopard and developed a very large abcess under the attack wound. Yesterday was the post-op checkup and the yak is doing well.
Today, we move up to Chukkung, allowing our bodies to acclimatize to the advancing altitudes. Tomorrow we'll tackle the KongmaLa pass, following our own advice to climb-high-sleep-low (we'll climb up to 5,800m then climb down a bit to sleep at 5,100m or around 15,000-ft). This is easier on the body.
We hope to arrive at EBC on April 3 and resume dispatches the following weeks.
Stay Safe,
Everest ER Team
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