Mt. Ama Dablam -- It's distinctive shape makes it easily identifiable. How can you not love this mountain? Just look at it, and it is called ama dablam -- how can you not love saying that out loud?
This is why I never want to attempt the summit: These aluminum ladders are placed over crevasses that are hundreds of feet deep. Then, you, in a full snow suit, with a backpack, wearing crampons on your feet, walk across the ladder. A common ways climbers, including sherpas, die is from falling in crevasses. No thank you.
We stopped at this woman's tea house for lunch. It was amazing what came out of her open-fire kitchen.
Gelgin Sherpa: In the summer everything moves. Everything comes down from the base camp. During the summer earth is moving, glacier melts, it is very unstable.Me: So, it's dangerous to go up to base camp in the summer.
Gelgin Sherpa: Yes, very dangerous.
Me: (in my mind...yikes!) -- even more yikes when we arrived and could hear avalanches all around us and see the trail being interrupted by glacial lakes, and newly opened crevasses
