Tengboche to Pheriche

Today Mike Johnson and I were up early to take pictures. We got our first glimpse of Everest! What an amazing day! I hiked back up to the Stupa above Tengboche to get shots of the monastery, Ama Dablam, Everest and the general scenery. I had a companion this morning, a local dog who hung out with me up and down the trail. Before breakfast we visited the local monastery. The architecture and the art were incredibly intricate and the setting very peaceful. After breakfast, we were back on the trail towards Pheriche. About halfway along the trail, we were privileged enough to visit Lama Geshe. This Lama is a very important Lama for Sherpas and climbers. Lama Geshe blessed us all. Melinda Johnson, Bob Veno and I were very fortunate to be wearing prayer beeds. The Lama took them from us, mixed them with his and then blessed them. He then told a story of a doctor who treated a yeti and lived to 180 years old. He then presented the docs (and me and Bob Veno) with a beautiful card telling the story and wrote our names on them in Nepali. All of us were very moved. We visited the monastery there, where there was a glass case with the skeletal remains of a "yeti" hand. The group got a big kick out of that. We hiked on to Pheriche with amazing views of Ama Dablam and arrived to our tea house in Pheriche at about 4pm. We had tea, of course, and then visited the Himalayan Rescue association clinic and then Wongchu took us on another hike. Tomorrow is another of Wongchu's rest days. Blue Sky Happy Day