Facebook post from JCG Expeditions: Day 6 | Hello from Dingboche 4400m!! The past few days have been amazing with trekking from Namche – Kumjuma (Tashi’s) and Kumjuma – Pangboche and today up to Dingboche. This morning we visited the Pangboche Monastery and took a buddest blessing called a Puja. All the team are doing really well and moral is high. We will now spend 2 days here in Dingboche with an acclimatisation hike tomo to reach 5000m! I will also try and get a couple of pictures up for you guys.

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Tweet from @JCGexpeditions: Day 5 – The team have enjoyed a buddest ‘Puja’ blessing at the Pangboche monastery and now a leisurely walk to Dingboche.

On up another 3 hours to 4413m at Dingboche with excellent views of Ama Dablam and home of the Sherpas who work on this imposing mountain each post monsoon season. Contouring up the valley side, then recrossing the river and turn up the Imja Valley to reach the picturesque farming village of Dingboche at 14,465ft. We stay a day here to acclimatize further with a quick hike up Nangkar Tshang to 5000m.

The hike to 5000m was hard going personally for me as I have picked up a nasty cold. So am rattling with all the pills I can take! I slept 14 hours in the last 24 and am feeling much better this morning. Snow fell last night and stuck and we woke up to ice on the inside of the windows. So much more luxirious then in a tent. The yaks have now been called into service to carry tents etc up to base camp at Island Peak. From Dingboche we got our first view of the peak. She looks tiny in comparison to her 8000m neighbours but having talked to people who summited in the last few days she is still going to be a hard one. We will work out way up to Chukkung today and do some rope work then on another hike up to 5500m before onto base camp. We are now way above the tree line and the clouds appear from further down the valley in the afternoon. Cold here but still beautiful and if this cold goes away I will start enjoying life a ton more.