Morning time we said goodbye to three of our fellowship (James, Hanna & Rob) as the were headed to Lobuche while we planned to spend a day in Dingboche to acclimatise. It has been a great little addition to our trek to have them with us.
After breakfast we went for a little explore around Dingboche but found that other than accomodation there was very little else. We strolled along the river that runs down the valley between the town and Ama Dablam and then headed back to our accomodation where we played some cards, ate lunch and had a little nap for a few hours. The nap was necessary as we had a very interrupted night to say the least. Across the hall from us were two young teenage Australian girls and at about 10:30pm (while we were all asleep) a huge rock dislodged itself from the wall in their room and fell about 8ft puncturing the ceiling and landing on one of the girls legs. The rock was massive (5-8kg) and the girl was lucky to have not had her femur broken. Her screams alerted us and we went over to help.
This was not the end of it however as the girl in the room next door suddenly had an attack of altitude sickness which caused her to faint in the hallway. We had to get her on oxygen pretty fast as she was pale and not breathing much at all. It was about 2am before we got back to sleep. The girl was evacuated in the morning.
Apart from that our rest day was pretty relaxed. Played a bunch of cards with some Danish guys, ate and slept. T'was a good day.
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