Harvey, those are outstanding, stunning and beautiful pictures! It must have been quite a memorable trip.
Would it be any help to carry a water filter and treat all your own water and wash your own food?
I am curious about the knees. They're artificial, right? ...so what is there to get sore?
By the way, people can click on the pictures to see a full-screen version.
Thanks. I had always thought about going back, and 14 yrs later had this chance.
Teahouses are $1-2 a night, food about $20 /day ,recharge my reader or solar wifi charges $5/day. Trekking permit $40. the main cost is just getting there.
I used all treated water ( chlorine dioxide) or purchased shrink wrapped bottled water ($0.25 to $3 /liter), but in cold climate maybe only used 1 bottle per day. We drank a ton of hot tea or hot chocolate. My friend used a filter. We do not think water was the problem. the only meal I was suspicious of was a lukewarm one, probably reheated leftover by the appearance. And I got sick 18 hrs later. All other meals were piping hot.
Steve, the titanium and polytheylene inside is hard, and the soft parts around it don't like it, as my surgeon says. I also have a reaction to one of those components with persistent swelling ever since surgeon. Have had to have more fluid drawn off ever since surgery than I did before. Not a stellar result. Only one knee so far. I can use it, with difficulties. Of course, I do abuse it far more than the average TKR patient.
atmospheric pressure at our high point above 18,000 was just 48% of normal.
Repeat 48%
