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Advice for preparation to Everest B.C... 10-Jan-2010 At 10:25:58 PM muddy

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I made the drive to BC from Lhasa about 10 years ago. Those days you could only fly into Lhasa (from Chengers) so we spent a week there (~3000m) acclimatizing. By the time you get to BC you will have crossed a couple of 5000m passes but (presumably) you will be sleeping lower, so yeah, the drive does acclimatize you a little . We didnt take anything special for the altitude, but give the chinese brandy a miss - a hangover at 5000m sucks. We stayed at the monastery at rongbuk, even brushing your teeth at that height makes you breathless if you havent walked in. Take a supply of cough serum\lozenges...the thin air is really dry, and if you are going in winter it will be seriously cold. I was there in September and was wearing a full length hand made thick woolly tibetan coat ontop of all the normal piles and thermals. But hey, the view of everest along the rongbuk on a clear day is simply superb.