What a stinking pit. It's quite disgusting. I mean there's human feces and yak feces and garbage everywhere and people spitting. I was so surprised to come out of that place without being incredibly sick. The cesspools have been created by the climbers and the Sherpas alike because this little place has been created for the climbers and nobody cleans it up.
Nobody maintains it and it's just awful.
Some of the other places have tea houses, like Dingboche. Not the cleanest place in the world, but certainly nice, certainly friendly. And Dingboche is at 14,400 feet, I believe, close to that. And Lobuche is around 15,000 or 16,000 feet, something around there. Basically, Dingboche is the last stop, the last real village where people live.