Fainting in Pheriche

From Brook’s Journal:  We woke up to more incredible views!  This morning just after breakfast I told Mom and Dad that I wasn’t feeling well and I thought I might throw up so dad took me outside.  Once we got outside I started feeling dizzy and my ears felt weird so I held on to Dad’s arm.  I don’t remember anything from then until I woke up thinking I had been asleep.  I quickly learned that I had fainted and Dad had laid me down on the ground.  Two Australian doctors were staying at the lodge so they checked my pulse and asked me questions about how I felt.  The man was nice and he kept calling me “mate.”

Yak dung drying to be used as fuel for fires

After resting and recovering for a little while we decided that I was healthy enough to do the one-hour hike to Dingboche.  Dingboche is the neighboring town just above and on the other side of the hill.  We stayed at a really nice hotel last night with fast wifi at 14,042 feet and fairly nice, big rooms so we were really picky about what place we were going to stay at.  Tanka and Dilli got so board they just sat down with their bags near the middle of town and waited for us while we walked around the town at least twice looking at every single option.