Almost done

Finally got the Everest photos up and hopefully there will shortly be a brief video of the magical panorama that greeted us when we crested Padu Pass at 5150m. It had been the most gruelling climb of the ride; 3 hours to cover 23kms and climb 900m over the most terrible dirt road, but all was forgotten when we saw the vista that greeted us. Weather has continued to be beautiful, but for a light snow fall as we crossed yet another high pass the day after leaving Everest. We went up to the North Everest base camp (on the Tibet side rather than the better known south face camp). The ride continues to be hard, lots of climbing and head winds but we completed the last climbs today (Wed) and we have only 30kms or so to the China/Nepal border (but in that 30kms we drop 2700m so it should be fun.