Namche is a spectacular city literally terraced into the walls of a step valley. There is not a street or a level stretch of more than a few meters in town. We camped next to the military outpost at the top of the town on a hill overlooking the path we had struggled up such a short time ago. It is 1,000 feet from the bottom of town to the top. When you talk of going down town you really are going down. Five minutes down 15 or 20 back up. Each teahouse or home is built into the side of the mountain and looks over the roof of the house across the walk path. Most are two or three stories and made of intricately cut double rock walls. I was draw to a construction site where I watched hordes of workers take ordinary rocks and with hammer and chisel and shape them into perfect squares about the size of our concrete blocks. While they do this other stone masons dry fit (no mortar) them together to form these beautiful walls. Every stone is carried to the site and every piece of debris is removed in specially designed carriers that they carry on there backs with a strap around there forehead for balance. My overriding impression of the Sherpa people are they are simple, industrious and content. Their life works for them and for this they are to be admired. In the morning we hiked the two hours to the Everest View Hotel – a structure built by Japanese investors on the this breathtaking aerie with a magnificent view of Everest, Lhotse and Ama Dablam. Unfortunately it is so remote that know one comes. At one time they helicoptered tourist in from Kathmandu, an 8,000 foot elevation gain, and immediately put them on oxygen! We being acclimatized by our gradual ascent had a wonderful lunch there of chicken chow mein in the presence of the Giants. We came back through Kumchange and saw the famous school that Sir Edmund Hillary founded for the people of the Khumbu. It is a awe inspiring experience to walk in the steps of the last great explorers and adventures.