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Feeding Time

• Rob
• 29 Apr 07, 05:53 AM

Now the climbers are up the mountain Base Camp has become a noticeably quieter place. Instead of the manic meals with 40 or so people squeezed around a long table in dark tent our group has dropped down to about 20.

The chef does the most amazing job cooking for all these people. The kitchen is set up under, basically some raised tarpaulin, with all the cooking on pressurised butane stoves. So food for 40 people comes out here, plus all the drinking water, and any hot water for clothes or people washing. But the meals we do get are pretty bizarre. All the constituent parts are rather nice but the combination is odd. A usual evening meal is spaghetti with potatoes and rice and peanut sauce. Those on the Atkins diet would do well to avoid coming to the Khumbu!

So it is not that surprising that after being here for about 3 weeks now and the most popular conversations (well the most popular I can write about) is food we’ll have when we get home. My dream – a roast chicken with roast potatoes, peas and ratatouille.