Highest

Debbie and I kept crossing paths with a small group of travelers from an Australian tour company.  We met up with them — in the freezing cold — to watch the sun set on Everest from the Tibetan-side Everest Base Camp.
No climbers this time of year.  Just the mountain, the rocks, the wind, and the cold.    Sunset gave way to a violet dusk with only Venus visible in the sky.
We hurried back to the monastery in the dwindling light before the rocky path down got too dark to navigate.