Thorong La Pass

Day 17.

We finally made it! The pass was a killer 5 hour ascent and we got hit with freezing cold winds at the top, but we pushed through together and made it! All took shelter in a tiny tea shack after some windy snaps.

For the first time I needed my fingers rubbing for circulation (how the tables have turned) and was willing to pay any price for a mug of burning hot tea to help the issue. Amazing a local was camped up this high selling tea - even kept the tea money he made in a bucket made purely from ice!

We preceded to devour our remaining snacks for all possible energy, we would need it to get down.

And that was that the pass was over in a flash! Time to descend, finally! A 1600m descent across 2 hours indicates just how keen we were to get down!

Limbster especially took off in an almost sprint like fashion, anything to get out of that ice cold wind.Read more