Some shops near the monastery. After dinner that night, Chris and Santosh had a serious chat with me concerning the remainder of the trek. The next day was going to be particularly difficult because it involved a steep and long descent from Tengboche down to the Imja Khola River followed by a steep climb up the other side and a long walk back to Namche for lunch. After lunch, we had to make the 2000' descent from Namche. They felt I would trek too slowly because of my injury to make Namche before the end of the day. They offered me some choices. I could be helicoptered back to Kathmandu. I had insurance to cover the cost but I walked all the way to Everest and I wanted to walk back. The next choice was to hire a horse when I reached Namche to ride down the 2,000'. I knew my ribs wouldn't take the pounding. I suggested that I leave 2 hours before everyone else the next morning at 5:00 so that I had a chance of making Namche by noon. That was the plan. Of course a dog barked the entire night without stopping even for a breath robbing me of desperately needed sleep most of the night. The next morning, on the 15th, Santosh and I left camp and headed downhill. As it turned out, I made Namche in 4 hours arriving by 9:00 a.m. It was decided that I'd be able to trek the rest of the way without any problems. After lunch we headed down off the Namche hill and trekked to a point half way to Lukla where we camped for the night. The next morning, on the 16th, we headed off for Lukla. It took most of the day to get there including a climb of about 700' to trek from Phakding back up to Luka.