Early wake up call at 04.50. In spite of the time the hotel served an excellent breakfast assortment; eg. Omelet, eggs Benedictine, fresh fruit pancakes. The minibus left the hotel at 05.30 for the domestic airport and the first adventure for the day: a Mountain Flight around Mount. Everest.

It was raining outside! Very unusual for May! So - it was not sure that the plane would fly. Coming to the airport we found that it was still uncertain but after a while we were given our boarding cards. Yes! We would fly around Mount Everest. We boarded the little plane equipped with our cameras and binoculars. Everyone was given a window seat. The expectations were as high as the Mountains.

The take off was smooth and the pilot drove the plane through the clouds only to come into a new layer of the clouds and the further layer of clouds and so on until he finally announced that he would turn around and go back to Kathmandu. The sight would not improve so no mountains were visible.

We will probably have another fly for Himalaya in the end of the week. While waiting for the flight for the next adventure, our tour leader Wongchu Sherpa took us to a monument for his late Sherpa friend Babu Chhiri who died on Mt. Everest in 2001. Babu Chhiri Sherpa had reached the summit of Mt. Everest 10 times and also slept there in a tent for 21 hours.