ABOVE the TREE LINE

Fourth day of the Everest Base Camp trekking. After a couple of days it is time to leave Namche Bazaar. We did a pretty steep hike from Namche Bazaar (3,400 meters) to Tengboche (3,900 meters). The tree line here in the Himalaya is around 4,000 meters. And we are going to see it today. After the tree line landscape everything changes. People is living and working here for the pure support to the trekkers. There are very little kids playing around. We started our trek almost in the dark. Kind of chilly. But this is the sunrise that finally started to warm us up a little ...

... and these are other pictures that I took during the 4 hours trekking. Mountains, yaks and of course the wonderful Sherpa people who is living here ...And finally we got to our destination. Tengboche. It is really a very small village. Actually it is a big Gompa (Busshist monastery) with four tea houses close by. And a wonderful viewpoint for the highest peaks of the Himalaya. The Gompa is the biggest in Nepal, but still not that big. We also attended the daily celebration ...And these are all the wonderful mountains that you can see from this little spot lost in the Himalayas. The first peak in the background is the Everest. In the second picture there is Ama Dablam. The third picture is the yard of the monastery ...I realize only now how much I am missing these mountains. Those mountains really touched my heart. Really a wonderful feeling.