We are Alive!

Hello Everyone,

Well we have made it to Kathmandu after some trouble with airports on the way. No problem in heathrow but in Delhi the security decided that Danny's climbing rope has an offensive weapon and took his bag off him and put it in the hold.

This was unfortunate for us as it was Danny's bag that had all the money and cards in it. We we got stuck in Kathmandu airport as we had no money to pay for the Visa entry and no-one in Kathmandu takes cards. It's a cash only country bit of a shock to our UK based system lol.

So Akhil saved our bacon and took Danny out into K-town to get cash while i waited in the airport. Not the best start to our trip.

So Akhil, has let us stay in his house which is amazing it like staying in a wedding cake... i'll post a pic later another time.

Kathmandu is madness nothing works in anyway that we in the west would understand. Its just chaos and out of the madness things just seem to happen.

So next step for us is getting out on a 9 day trek near Langtang followed by a weeks rest before we fly to Tibet to tour round Lhasa and the lakes.

When we've done that we come back to rest before we do the big trek to Annapurna base camp and the we climb a snow capped peak called Thapu Chuli at 5100m. We have our own porters and mountain guide so we should be safe. It will take us 3 days to do the summit and it's all crampons and ice axes all the way.

Anyway battery is failing on the laptop so I'll post this now.