Days 18-23 (October 5-10) Pokhara is a typical tourist town. You can stay here and have an experience similar to most tourist places everywhere. You can eat food from various cuisines. You can get cocktails and watch sporting events. You can party and buy crappy touristy things. I know this may sound boring to you, but for us, after two weeks of isolation, it was another world. So we had Continue…
Since I’ve finished the trekking part of my Nepal series, I thought it would be interesting to discuss about the equipment we used. Backpacks: I used a Lowe Alpine Crag Attack. It’s very light, at only 800 g for a volume of 42 l. The downside of having such a light backpack is that it has very little back support – no metal of plastic frame. So it’s up to its Continue…
Day 17 – October 4 In order to partly recreate the atmosphere for this post, please listen to this song on repeat for at least a couple of hours, then start reading the text. It was a long and rough day. It all started innocuously in the morning, with our intention of traveling to Pokhara. There are 2 options for getting there from Jomsom: a 20 minute flight at around $110 Continue…
Day 15 – October 2 You don’t have a lot to do after getting dark, besides shivering. So you go to sleep at 8 pm. Apparently it’s also hard to sleep when you’re acclimatizing. Combining these, we had a long and cold night up at Thorung High Camp. Woke up at 11 pm and checked the weather. Clear starry skies. Snowy mountain tops visible in the distance. No longer the Continue…
Day 14 – October 1 Left at 7am. Finally saw Nepali wildlife: a few packs of blue sheep. Crossed another landslide area. As we were cautiously walking, one fist size rock darted just a few meters in front of us, at lightning speed. Adrenaline pumping, we sprinted for the rest of the section, as fast as you can sprint at 4400 m elevation. Started snowing like Christmas. Got Andreea in Continue…