DisOrientated - A Weblog by Philip Sen - Seven Days in Tibet

May 05, 2004

Seven Days in Tibet - Six

From Shegar, the journey to Base Camp is another ride of endurance rather than enjoyment. The state of the road shakes your dried-up brain around your cranium like a pae in a whistle. Not what you need when the altitude is already encouraging a pounding headache.

Approaching Quomolangma, Everest, the mountain itself looms almost too close. Having had enough of the low pressure, a cigarette lighter exploded in my pocket. Then the vehicle stops at the point of no return (step any further and you cough up the $10,000 fee for climbing the peak).

Set on a cold, rocky, windswept plain, Base Camp North is an unassuming huddle of tents, portacabins and a lone stupa. Though you can sit in the warm and drink tea in an overpriced refreshment stall, it's no holiday resort. People have died here and people have died on their return.

That night I woke up reciting the text of a virulent article designed to bring down the CCP. The secret police rapped on the door, entered without invitation and began to interrogate. There was no way out. I was in big trouble.

Some of the above may not have been entirely true but in my by then delirious state I was in no position to question the feverish hallucination. Hardly able to walk, I had to be helped up the steps twice by the long-suffering Simona only to find I couldn't even pee.

Altitude sickness is no joke. That was the nadir.

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