Three Glorious Days

We've had 3 days of unimaginably good weather, riding  and scenery. Day 8 (Thur) saw a big climb of 1070m to the highest point of our ride, 5248m, rewarded with a great descent through the valley.  Friday started gently at first but when thenleft the Friendship Highway and found oourselves on a poor dirt road (which we are still on 95kms later).  We climbed 900m in a gruelling climb on badly potholed dirt, btu all was forgotten when we crested the pass at 5150m and were greedt by the most extraordinary mystical panorama of Everest and her sister mountains from 45km away.  Words cannot describe the scene.  There was hardly a cloud in the sky..  We then had a fast 25km descent down the samebadly potholed dirt, this time with tight switchbacks most of the way.  Today (Sat) saw us climb slwoly over about 47kms to reach Rombuk, at the foot of Everest (Everest is about 8kmsaway but dominates the valley.  It is truly majestic.  Pictures of the last 3 days wil go up as soon as Flickr comes back up!!   We have only tonight then 4 more nights (and more importanly only one more big pass to cross, then its all down hills