Everest Base Camp from Kala Pattar. Click the "Enlarge" button and you'll be able to see the tents in the camp (coloured dots to the immediate left of the Khumbu Icefall and above the black rocks of Kala Pattar in the left corner). No photos for May 13, but here's what happened: Near the base of Kala Pattar just above where the 2 paths meet, my right foot slipped out from under me. I fell back against a rock and fractured 2 ribs on my right side although I had to wait for my return to Toronto to discover that. I was faced with trekking the 40 miles back to Lukla in some considerable pain. The next day, May 13, we were up at 4:00 a.m. Dawn and Matt decided to trek into Everest base camp - 1 1/2 hours away. The visibility was poor; everything was shrouded in clouds. I elected to start my trek back to Lukla because there's not much to see or do at base camp, I had already reached 500' above base camp elevation and climbing another moraine didn't appeal to me because I was in pain. Also, the footing everywhere is tricky and I didn't want to risk another injury in the poor visibility unnecessarily. Instead, Chris and Santosh and I started the trek from Gorak Shep back down. Our goal was to reach Dughla by early afternoon. We took 2 days to climb from Dughla to Gorak Shep because we had to acquire altitude slowly. That caution isn't necessary going down. In fact, even though it took us 10 days to trek from Lukla to Gorak Shep, it would only take 4 to return to Lukla. When Dawn and Matt finally reached Dughla from Everest base camp, we learned that in the poor visibility Matt had slipped and he believed broke his left heel. In fact, when he returned to Brooklyn, he discovered that he had actually broken his heel in 2 places. He had to inject himself every morning with a powerful pain killer in order to keep walking.