Hiking to Base Camp

Tonya and team are all now out of Kathmandu and hiking towards Base Camp.  Several team members took a helicopter to almost 14,000ft and are just a day or two from Base Camp, while others on the team chose to hike in from much lower down and will have about 10 days of hiking before reaching camp.  Tonya and two other team members opted for the middle ground between those two options...and landed yesterday morning (Nepal time) in the village of Tashigaon - at an elevation of almost 7,000ft.  Tonya is looking at four or five days of hiking and good acclimatization before reaching Base Camp.  It's about 5:30pm on April 11th as I type this, which means the sun is just rising in Nepal and Tonya is most likely getting ready to head out for day two of the trek to BC....

 

A map of the trek into Makalu Base Camp