Barely 18 hours after arriving in Lhasa, just enough time to recover,

we got in a Land Cruiser provided by the Tibetan Plateau Research Institute and headed up to OUMORS,

the research station which is near Everest Base Camp.

This is a lot farther than it appears on a map.

More details on Greg's blog.

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