I'm back in Namche, after a stroll up to the Everest View Hotel today - and a visit to the Sagarmatha National Park Museum. This got us up to about 3900m, with very light packs, and now we are back where we started - which is the secret of gradual acclimatisation. Certainly the air feels pretty thin already after our fly-in.
The Everest View Hotel is a very upmarket place, built largely for the Japanese market, but I suspect it is a bit of a financial flop, judging by the numbers there today. It was certainly badly named for today - because there is a lot of cloud around. I managed a photo of Thamserku (at 6600m) to give you an idea of what it is like up here. Yesterday's snow has disappeared from Namche, but it remains very cold, and I'm very glad to have the down jacket. That's a view of the place as we came back down the hill. 
This time tomorrow we should be in Tengboche.
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