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Another early rise at the Sherwi Khangba Lodge at an altitude of 3550 meters. Paul and I prepared ourselves for a demanding day of setting up the power for the labs, with a short burst of 40 press ups each. This left us breathless for a surprising length of time.!

Unfortunately due to the demanding configuration of the electrics for the laboratories, Paul was claiming that we would definitely not be ready for the arrival of Helen and Alan. While Lee and I were busying ourselves amongst the barrels and Trifibre cases in the store room, a converted Yak shed, we were interrupted by a booming hello that turned out to by Alan. He was closely followed by Helen who was keen to go down into Namche village. They had arrived to calibrate the laboratory kit.

The lodge that we are staying in is at the top of Namche and the village centre is another 200 meters vertically down. After a fifteen minute descent we made it to the German Bakery to stock up on pastries and donuts. Only after a short amble around the small village, did Alan and I realise that lunch was served in fifteen minutes. Due to Alan?s excursion in the morning and my general consumption of anything, we were both keen to get back to the top of the hill.

After lunch, we got back to work, as we knew that if we did not get the labs sorted out as soon as possible, we would not have enough time to set up Base Camp before the main team arrived. It snowed all afternoon and even though the route to the generators started to resemble the Somme, we managed to navigate through the mud and eventually start the generators. Once we knew that the generators were working, we were only waiting for the control laptop unit to warm up. At about 7 o?clock, Paul had managed to get the power flowing!

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