04:00 start, in order to do our diaries; have breakfast; have our luggage collected; and be driven to the airport to catch a local twin engined Beaver to Lukla. These planes only took about 14 so we needed to use two planes. The one I was on was flown by Yeti Airlines - I was so taken with the name that I retained the boarding pass.
Once we got to Lukla, we went to the Jagged Globe depot, where we met the Sirdar, Sherpas and porters. We had tea, sorted out our day sacks, and eventually started out trekking Lukla is a ribbon town, on the main path up the valley. Most of the shops seemed to be selling trekking gear, or tourist souveniers, or both. The group spent some time purchasing odds and ends before moving on. The trekking was downhill for a considerable way, and then lots of ups and downs, ending up at virtually the same altitude we started at. I found the trekking very tiring, and by the end of the day I was extremely tired, though I had no aches or pains for my trouble.
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