Everest Base Camp Trek: Grom & Team Reach Gorak Shep, Last Stop before Everest Base Camp
Hello again everyone.
Today the team once again woke to beautiful clear skies and mountains in all directions.
As per usual, we hit the trail after breakfast and slowly made our way further up valley to the village before Base Camp, called Gorak Shep. Which in the Sherpa language means “place where the Raven died”. And it’s very fitting.
Being the last village means there are less tea houses = busier and food quality diminishes. Plus it doubles as storage for the Everest expeditions gear while they aren’t climbing. It’s a dry dusty place and we are happy to be only spending one night here.
Once at camp we had a nice lunch and then a few of us ventured out to hike up Kala Patar Which means black rock. About half way up there are spectacular views of Everest and we stopped to take a few pictures. While some called it good, a couple of us finished hiking to the highest point roughly 18’500ft.
Everyone is doing well and very excited to make it to Base Camp tomorrow.
And just so everyone back home knows, once we reach Base Camp, there may not be cell reception or probably no WiFi either. We might be off grid for two days, but I promise I’ll update as soon as we are back in service.
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the nearly at Base Camp crew!
