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- Oct 24, 2018, 9:07pm
- 🌙 15 °C
- Altitude: 1,045 m
- Nepal Western Region Bhanumati Buchakhani 28, 8428°0’0” N 84°0’0” E
Day 11
Day 8: no words to describe the beauty
October 24, 2018 in Nepal ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
What a day! Bright sunshine for the easy scenic and gorgeous walk from saun to sando. It was 360 degree of mountain beauty. You couldn’t watch enough. It was one of the most beautiful things I have seen.
Bidi went ahead to book rooms. It is still crowded because Rinpoche was also heading to the same village as we did. We arrived there around noon, had a delicious meal and went up in direction of Tibet. There is a lot of traffic between here and the south of Tibet. It is closer and cheaper, at the moment the border is open. We saw a colony of mules carrying goods from Tibet. We went up as high as the Jungfrau, enjoyed the last rayons of sunshine before heading down again. The diner room has a oven, so we stayed there from late afternoon until now, having diner and playing cards. What a beautiful place to stay two nights at. Longer I don’t know. People here live very simple but we think they have enough food. It is just so cold and we have only fall. The temperature is below zero, there is even a bit snow in the more shadow parts.
Tomorrow we gonna try climbing up Sando peak at a bit more then 5000m. We will see how this goes, very looking forward doing that! I am so thankful I get to spend that adventure with so nice and interesting people. I feel very comfortable.Read more
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- Oct 25, 2018, 9:05pm
- 🌙 14 °C
- Altitude: 1,045 m
- Nepal Western Region Bhanumati Buchakhani 28, 8428°0’0” N 84°0’0” E
Day 12
Day 9: out of comfort zone, into the bea
October 25, 2018 in Nepal ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
First of all, Rosa is sick. Poor Rosa. I am so sorry for her and I hope so mucb she will be fine tomorrow to go to Dharmashala, where we gonna camp at 4570m before the pass to the other valley. Today we had Samdo Peak on the list - or a shorter version to 4500m or a break at the village. My mum said, I would go all the way up anyway. I was not sure aboht that, even more with my wobbly bandages knees. We all started together, Rosa had to turn around after an hour, so we headed further up only the seven of us with our two wonderful guides. When I say up, I mean up. It was so so steep! And this at almost 4000m starting point. It was so steep. Ruth, she is short, had to take huge steps, I was a bit more advantageous woth my long legs. At some point at around 4700m Ruth and Rolf turned around, too, Rolf also not feeling a 100% fit. Peter, Hans-Peter, Martin, Daniel, Bidi the guide and me went further up. We reached the little summit at 4850m and decided to head down a different way, thank god. While doing that we realized that going to the actual summit we wanted to reach opened up a different, easier descent. So up we went and reached (selon which watch you trust) around 5100m. What a view! It was awesome. Magical. We could see to Tibet, to the pass we gonna cross the day after tomorrow, just wonderful being up there. The way down, let’s say, I did it, it was way less bad then i expected but nevertheless I was thankful to be down again. We had soup for lunch, then again a bowl with a bit of warm water, enough for a clean. After dinner again some card game and now it is 9o’clock and I am already in my cosy sleeping bag, looking forward for the next couple of days! Oh, it is cold, not as cold as yesterday since it snowed.Read more
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- Oct 26, 2018
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 1,045 m
- Nepal Western Region Bhanumati Buchakhani 28, 8428°0’0” N 84°0’0” E
Day 13
Day 10: es tröimli
October 26, 2018 in Nepal ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Poah, iz simer scho vorem pass uf 4500m. Zum glück geits dr rosa ume besser, sodass mr aui glichzitig losglüffe si, wie immer nachemne feine z’morge. Sisch ume mega schön gsi, dismau simer ire fiine schneeschicht lostschaupet im wüsse, dass mr ganz viu zyt hei. obe acho, heimer e rundi gsünnelet vor üsne beide schlafcontainer, je vier i eim. nachem z mittag heimer d sunne gnosse, chle richtig pass losglüffe bis d sunne wäg isch. das isch hie bi däne höche bârge früeh u es wird mega chaut derna. drum simer scho vorem z nacht i d schlafseck u hei e rundi nüt gmacht. ou mau schön. iz isch nid mau achti u aui si scho ungere. so imene duuneschlafsack isch me eifach scho am wöuhste u am wermste. morn gits für einisch früechr tagwach, mir wei so gäg sie sächse losloufe. whs so 8h heimer insgsamt. no 600m ufe u 1400m abe. fröiemi meha!!Read more
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- Oct 27, 2018, 8:11pm
- 🌙 -3 °C
- Altitude: 2,711 m
- Nepal Western Region Thoche Katee 28.592784, 84.41956428°35’34” N 84°25’10” E
Day 14
Day 11: Königsetappe
October 27, 2018 in Nepal ⋅ 🌙 -3 °C
Gester isch ja no lustig gsi: si dütschi no mit üs id gliche ‘containersiedlig’ gsi u de heisi diskutiert, wenn los. schinbar wei die iiheimische immer scho sehr frûeh los, wörum ou immer. dr daniel hett z morge uf di haubi füfi bsteut u losloufe so gäg di sächse, wes scho häu isch. nüt mir früüre da im dunkle. dr dütsch reisefüehrer hett scho am haubi füfi wöue zmörgele, dass hett de sini truppe nid wöue. auso haubi sächsi, da si scho mir gsi. drum nach langer diskussion zwüsche füfi u sächsi heisisech de uf 5:20 geinigt... jedefaus sisi scho da gsi womer cho si u aui hei ires zmorge bercho. dr rolf isch nid so zwäg gsi, hett nid möge ässe u dr arm hett die ganze nün stung, womer ungerwägs si gsi, müesse bisse. die cheibe höchi. hanim so chönne nachefüehle.
bim ufeloufe heimer no e frou u e maah gseh, wo emene muli hei müesse häufe usem iischwasser ds cho, es isch ibroche. zum glück heisis gschafft, nume hett die armi frou mit blutte fingere däm arme tier ghoufe, si hett so chaut gha. i ha de tee gä u d ruth es paar häntsche u de isch si gli ume witer. was fürnes angers läbe die lüt hei aus ig.
es isch aus i auem e ungloublech schöne tag gsi. die landschaft dett obe, eifach troumhaft. es fähle eim d wort. i bi so dankbar gsi, dasi dett obe bi gsi, dass es mr guet geit, dassi die zyt vorhär, wo so sträng isch gsi, gschafft ha, sisch richtig berüherend gsi, dett, mit däne tolle lüt, woni da ha dörfe lehre kenne. e unvergässleche momänt. sish de gad witer mit däre schönheit u grössi u witi näbe däne steinige riese mit gletscher wome is angere tal gseh hett. luege hett me de nume chönne, weme aghaute hett. es isch e schwierige abgang gsi, steil u gschlifrig. aber unbeschriblech schön. u aues unger dr sunne mit nume wenig wind. eifach toll. mir hei de öppe nach 700 höhemeter e suppepouse gmacht u si de witers bis uf bingham churz vor de drü. mir hei e super lodge, hei es bierli zwitscheret u de ume gwäschet mitem becki warmem wasser. ohni haar. weni die ds letschte mau gwäsche ha - ke ahnig. ou völlig wurscht hie obe. Iz heimer guet z nachtet mit öpfuringli zum dessert. gjasset heimer nid, e gruppe franzose hett es mega fest mit irne porters, sehr lustig gsi, aber ds bett hett de doch glockt.Read more
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- Oct 29, 2018, 6:10am
- ⛅ 0 °C
- Altitude: 2,261 m
- Nepal Western Region Thoche Tilche 28.54434, 84.3813728°32’40” N 84°22’53” E
Day 16
Day 12
October 29, 2018 in Nepal ⋅ ⛅ 0 °C
Getting up, breakfast, walking in the sun, lunch, chatting with other groups, walking in the sun, diner and today: hot shower!! how exciting! what a pleasure that was! We were all very excited about it.
Sadly Bibi has to leave us tomorrow, his dad is sick. So we said goodbye to him this evening, Rolf said a couple of words and he got next to money some gifts. It was a pleasure with him! We had some rice wine with the crew and a lot of fun, we are now in bed and it is already 9:50pm. Very late! The latest we had so I need to sleep! Only 8:30h to sleep! We make jokes about how early we go to bed so we are now worried for tomorrow. We will see if we all get up for breakfast at 7am. Tomorrow again a 6-7h walk with 900m of going down to Jagat at 1400m. Second last day to walk. Incredible!Read more
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- Oct 29, 2018, 9:19pm
- ⛅ 7 °C
- Altitude: 1,312 m
- Nepal Western Region Taghring Jagat 28.413337, 84.40652728°24’48” N 84°24’23” E
Day 16
Day 13
October 29, 2018 in Nepal ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
What a day again: Betwee yesterday and today we almost walked 50km. It was long, sometimes very dusty since we walked on the street, but mostly beautiful on the other side of the road, crossing the river again on the suspended bridges. The German group finished their trek approximately after 7km and took the jeep. They past us not far away from here: The road was blocked because of street workers for at least a couple of hours. The German guide told us that the way to Jagat isn’t nice at all, we preferred walking ten times to being stuck in a jeep or on the street for hours in the shadow.
The way although was long and poor Hans-Peter was really not walking good with pain in both feet. He could have taken a Jeep, too, but he didn’t want to. My knees were hurting when going down with big steps. Since we went up approximately 500m we went down again 1400m all in all. But the pain is ok and if there are not so pseudo-stairways downwards, they don’t hurt. We are staying at a very nice lodge and the food is amazing. There are again bananas! I had a banana lassi when we arrived and a Banana-Chocolate-Pie as a dessert. Heaven!!Read more
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Day 8: no words to describe the beauty

Day 9: out of comfort zone, into the bea

Day 10: es tröimli

Day 11: Königsetappe

Day 12

Day 13