always the sun

ooooh wow! The sun was out! And what a view! We were all a bit confused but apparently that zyklone took another route and somehow we got lucky. We could see all those big big mountains, had breakfast in the sun and soon we were starting always following the electric poles in direction of Linghsi. Of course we decided to continue our trek as planned. What a big surprise. We climbed up first very steep and then crossing the marmot field it was much smoother. We saw a lot of marmots. Cute animals. And baby yaks again. Soooooo schnuslig! We had like yesterday a dog for company following us until were we sleep, a bit later another one from the camp of yesterday joined. One tried to catch marmots, but they warn eachother, it is very funny to watch them. Blue sheep which aren’t sheep at all but goats were in a big group grazing at the mountain. Soon we were in the snow and it got muddy. Still under the snow, the view while ascending just astonishing (I used wonder-/beautiful already too often. Behind us was the Austrian couple but we didn’t cross them later one and they do another trek. Otherwise we just saw locals or no one. At our campsite there is just us, the horses and the two dogs. Incredible. We made it on the pass shortly before 11 since we were so fast we went up until the peak at around 5000m. We were very happy I think you can see it on the peak-selfie. Quickly we went down to have lunch where there wasn’t snow and continued down the valley. We took a longer way where we stayed longer above the river for nicer views. We saw again marmots and bluesheep and the view, just wow. It took longer then Tenzing though, there was also a river crossing and then after a curve into another valley we saw our campsite far away, down at the river. We arrived there quite quickly and did some washing as usual, dragged bags around and made ourselves comfortable for another night in the tent. It was very windy first, with the nightfall the wind dropped, now it is raining again. It is 21:00 and I am in bed, looking forward for another pass crossing tomorrow for Shodu, then still not clear where we go next, we don’t seem to run out of option. I am very happy we could continue and now touch some wood for a dry and safe journey tomorrow.Read more