Pangboche to Ama Dablam

Walked to Pangboche at 13,000 feet for lunch. Great views of Ama Dablam. It is Sunday so I read the bok of Isaiah and spun the prayer wheels all around the monastery and walked around the prayer alters stacked with stone tablets engraved with Buddhist magic, We eat mostly local food, potatoes, a mustard green type vegetable we see growing in the mountain gardens, and eggs. Like captain Ahab we study the mountain and the charts up the mountain unceasingly. We arrive at Ama Dablam base camp early afternoon and 15,136 feet. It is incredibly beautiful, mountains on every side. We could see huge plumes of snow blowing off  Mt Everest as we walked in. I was late for dinner because I started climbing around looking for rocks and bones and tattered prayer flags