limwhow
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Day 7: Insanely Early Morning Rise to shoot Star Trail, Milky Way and Sunrise with Mount Everest as Background...
Sometimes I really could not understand photographers.
We trekked all the way up here to 3400m the whole of the day, by the time we finished dinner it was about 9pm, and we all still got to go up and unpack and repack our luggage for the descend the next day... and yet, these hardcore shooters were still enthusiastic enough to wake up at 2:30am to gather at the lobby of the lodge at 3am so that we may brave the freezing cold of the unearthly hours of Namche Bazaar to walk 40 minutes up to a vantage point to see Mount Everest, shoot star trails, shoot milky way and wait for sunrise to shoot again...
But what to do? You came all the way here just so as to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity meh? Cannot mah, right? So bo bian lor.... every one go, you also got to go lor...
Here are my pure record shots. All done hand-held in high ISO with lousy shutter speed and movement blur and all that thrown in for free. Just so that we may all relive that few moments of insanity...
Here is a Google Eye view of where we would be walking to at A which was 3549m high... about close to 150m above where our lodge was. And that climb taken in the pitch black of the night... it was sheer craziness!
To lead us to the craziness, was Melvin and our good Nepali guide Binot. But it was the ingenuity of our Goose Goi in bringing his sleeping bag high up there so that he may sleep under the stars while we all shoot and suffer in the deep cold, that was the highlight of the dawn... Mevlin, Goose Goi and JohnnyLCP must have had a little too much to drink that night before... and this trio seemed to have some difficulty finding their footings in the dark. We all stopped in our track, turned back and stared into the dark, waiting for them.. hehehe...
Haha... can see wkcheah smiling happily. Almost everyone else was masked tightly to keep their warm breaths in.
But what I forgot to say was, we were all sort of surprised by the effort needed to take that small morning walk up to the plateau. It was REALLY rather breathless even with a few steps of walk up the steps and the slope. And Melvin was fumbling with his walkie talkie:
My goodness.. I looked around all the members standing there looking at me and could not imagine each of us volunteering to take off our colourful underwear and leave them dangling on the wall of the buildings and the poles of the steps for Melvin to find and to follow.
Day 7: Insanely Early Morning Rise to shoot Star Trail, Milky Way and Sunrise with Mount Everest as Background...
Sometimes I really could not understand photographers.
We trekked all the way up here to 3400m the whole of the day, by the time we finished dinner it was about 9pm, and we all still got to go up and unpack and repack our luggage for the descend the next day... and yet, these hardcore shooters were still enthusiastic enough to wake up at 2:30am to gather at the lobby of the lodge at 3am so that we may brave the freezing cold of the unearthly hours of Namche Bazaar to walk 40 minutes up to a vantage point to see Mount Everest, shoot star trails, shoot milky way and wait for sunrise to shoot again...
But what to do? You came all the way here just so as to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity meh? Cannot mah, right? So bo bian lor.... every one go, you also got to go lor...
Here are my pure record shots. All done hand-held in high ISO with lousy shutter speed and movement blur and all that thrown in for free. Just so that we may all relive that few moments of insanity...
Here is a Google Eye view of where we would be walking to at A which was 3549m high... about close to 150m above where our lodge was. And that climb taken in the pitch black of the night... it was sheer craziness!
To lead us to the craziness, was Melvin and our good Nepali guide Binot. But it was the ingenuity of our Goose Goi in bringing his sleeping bag high up there so that he may sleep under the stars while we all shoot and suffer in the deep cold, that was the highlight of the dawn... Mevlin, Goose Goi and JohnnyLCP must have had a little too much to drink that night before... and this trio seemed to have some difficulty finding their footings in the dark. We all stopped in our track, turned back and stared into the dark, waiting for them.. hehehe...
Haha... can see wkcheah smiling happily. Almost everyone else was masked tightly to keep their warm breaths in.
But what I forgot to say was, we were all sort of surprised by the effort needed to take that small morning walk up to the plateau. It was REALLY rather breathless even with a few steps of walk up the steps and the slope. And Melvin was fumbling with his walkie talkie:
"Hello Limwhow, come in... come in..." croaked Melvin over the walkie talkie.
"Yah, Melvin. Send." Yours truly doing the job of a record photographer as well as signaller.
"Eh... where are you all huh? I cannot see you all. You all turned right or turned left after our Lodge huh?" Wah lau, Melvin really seh liao...
"We turned left and walked up. Nah.. I shine my torch light far far for you to see and you follow the light up here."
"Ah... it's ok Limwhow. You all can leave markings for us so that we can follow the markings up." suggested Melvin over the cold air of the morning.
My goodness.. I looked around all the members standing there looking at me and could not imagine each of us volunteering to take off our colourful underwear and leave them dangling on the wall of the buildings and the poles of the steps for Melvin to find and to follow.
"Ah... Melvin ah. I think we will wait for you all lah..." I finally managed something.
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