This is us at the highest point on our trek, Kala Patter, 18500 feet. That’s Everest behind Eric.

Here we are yesterday morning at Base Camp. That’s Everest behind me.

And thinking that six days without a hot shower was enough, and since down would be a repeat of up (and extremely hard on various old joints) we opted for an exhilarating helicopter ride back to Lukla.

More when we have more reliable internet, but the Starbucks (a pretty good knock off) in Lukla seems pretty good!  BTW for some odd reason there are some outstanding bakeries at the various villages along the trail.