MAY-B-2
SETTING OUT ON THE EVEREST TREK ROUTE
FROM LUKLA,
SITE OF OUR ONE WEEK OF MEDICAL CAMP,
AND HIKING UP THROUGH PHAKDING AND TOWARD MUNJO
FOR OUR FIRST OVERNIGHT ON THE TREK
May 10, 2002
Berg Hel! We are on our way to the wonders of the Everest Trek Route setting off after our 560 patent Lula Medical Camp on an overcast morning from the Lula Himalaya Lodge having stripped down the gear to what fits into a duffel bag and my day backpack already embroidered with the logo of my Himalayan High literary efforts which this series may further develop. But notably absent from my backpack both now and n the past Nepal trek n 1999 s my backpack laptop and charging cord since there s nothing to plug into along the way and nothing from which any typed up messages might be sent. So am gong to have to rely upon the most useful of my writing instruments the ballpoint pen and the e serial letters have been sending throughout my travel history along with of course my highest art from—the post card. Will have a number of notes on my observations particularly how they are different from the nds of impressions had achieved before along the same route so that will have to return to “fill n the blanks!”
A disaster has occurred as have returned to do so. T appears that have come back with a rapid replacing and recharging of my batteries to equip myself for the long long trip back to the USA fllng n as go the details of this May-B-series which had outlined n its parts from the Everest Trek of the May-B-series after typing up n the first wee the details of the Medical Camp n Lula: but the motherboard of my laptop has failed---once no thrice again---and have no row of eys that sound le “cay” “eye” comma asters eight ampersand---which can only be reconstituted f there s a near mss n the Spell Check that will allow t to be filled n. This of course does not recognize the commas that are missing (two of which just went by the board and at no point does t recognize the capital letter “Eye.” So cannot use this computer to do what the time would be deal for as am now stranded n a several day weather wat with the right charging cord sand adapters to pc up energy from the solar collector and have the discs and all other appurtenances ready for the completion of the May-B-series which with the semi-completed May-A-series constitutes the “Nepal-02” boo. T s fortunate that the previous intact boo “Dahram-02” was completed as that medical mission was n progress and that t will be intact even though there cannot be a similar completion of the “Nepal-02” boo through the already outlined May-B-series before the computer has crashed by once again having a mother board breakdown involving those same sets of eys.
So once again my literary action will be constrained by the extensive Serial letters of the D-Series which am hoping will arrive by the portering down from the Himalayas after having completed them by ballpoint with the Everest Trek component written up as “D-5” will make t back since its 30 pages were written as went up the distance even carried to the e summit of ala Patthar. So plagued with glitches of transportation (weathered out right now n stranding n Lula by the ranclouds and zero vsblty after a previous round trip from Delhi to Delhi after all day delays occasioned by the security breaches n ndra Ghand that eventually cancelled the previously hijacked ndan Ar flight from Delhi to Kathmandu) and communication: (the screeching failure of my tape recorder on the cold pre-dawn trek up to the summit of ala Patthar as well as the interdiction b y the military police occupation of Lula and the whole of the Nepal hinterland n there struggle with Maoist insurgency that meant NO EMAL transmissions from me as long as was n Nepal outside the capital) to a b breakdown of each camera system (the Non N00 with its principle lens falling apart especially repaired n Delhi for this trip and with its batteries freezing at the critical time of the ala Patthar ascent as well as the Non NTT which failed to advance the film and once reversed t rewinding prematurely when its batteries failed and were replaced from my backpack stores when accessible) this trip has had multiple techno-glitches.
Am happy to report to you through this imperfect medium of a now near-useless laptop computer that the single non-falling complex system on this trek along the highest mountains on the face of this planet has been the author of these reports a new decade birthday notwithstanding! For that am happily grateful and will try to resume this story when the other lesser systems are restored to as much health as the primary system n me has enjoyed!