Only two weeks remaining before our departure to Kathmandu.
Still can't believe it‘s almost here! We started planning this trip 10 months ago.
Tomorrow I head out from Leesport PA to Fort Collins CO where I’ll meet up with Ryan. We’ll spend our remaining time making final preparations for the trip. I’ll have to see how much of my stuff I can get Ryan to carry - hope he’s not reading this.
Our current itinerary is to depart from Denver 10/20, connect through Seoul Korea, then on to Kathmandu Nepal. After arriving in Nepal we will only have one day to prepare for our first of two planned treks, the Annapurna Circuit. Our trek will begin in Besisahar and our plan is to travel, by taxi, from Kathmandu. From Besisahar we will take the standard Annapurna trail. It should take us about 4 days to reach Pisang where we will head up the high pass via Upper Pisang through Ngwal to Manang. Spending two days in Manang resting and acclimatizing should prepare us for the next phase of the trek - Tilicho Lake.
Listed as one of the highest lakes in the world at 16,000ft. This may be one of the most difficult parts of the entire trek! From Tilicho lake we will head back and meet up with the standard Annapurna route. The trail will take us up over ThorungLa Pass which is at an elevation of 17,768 ft.. Once over the pass we will head down to Jomson where we will catch a flight to Pokhara. Total length of the trek is 13 days. Spending a rest day in Pokhara we will make our way back to Kathmandu via air.
Not much time to catch our breath as the following day we are off to begin our second trek, Everest Base Camp “Modified”. It begins by catching a flight to Lukla which is listed as the most dangerous airports to land and depart from in the world. Should be an interesting flight! Once we touch down we will make our way from Lukla to Namche Bazaar. We will spend one day here acclimatizing and taking a few side trips. Then it’s off to Dingboche for another rest day. From there we will traverse over KongmaLa Pass, elevation of 18,159ft, on our way to Gorak Shep. From Gorak Shep we will climb to Everest Base camp, 17,400ft. and Kala Patter, 18,192ft.
Then it’s on to Gokyo via ChoLa Pass ,17,611ft.. We will spend 3 days in Gokyo making day trips seeing all 5 lakes along the Ngozumpa glacier. Our final leg home will be via RenjoLa Pass,17,585ft., through Thame back to Lukla. Total length of the trek is 17 days.
Still can't believe it‘s almost here! We started planning this trip 10 months ago.
Tomorrow I head out from Leesport PA to Fort Collins CO where I’ll meet up with Ryan. We’ll spend our remaining time making final preparations for the trip. I’ll have to see how much of my stuff I can get Ryan to carry - hope he’s not reading this.
Our current itinerary is to depart from Denver 10/20, connect through Seoul Korea, then on to Kathmandu Nepal. After arriving in Nepal we will only have one day to prepare for our first of two planned treks, the Annapurna Circuit. Our trek will begin in Besisahar and our plan is to travel, by taxi, from Kathmandu. From Besisahar we will take the standard Annapurna trail. It should take us about 4 days to reach Pisang where we will head up the high pass via Upper Pisang through Ngwal to Manang. Spending two days in Manang resting and acclimatizing should prepare us for the next phase of the trek - Tilicho Lake.
Listed as one of the highest lakes in the world at 16,000ft. This may be one of the most difficult parts of the entire trek! From Tilicho lake we will head back and meet up with the standard Annapurna route. The trail will take us up over ThorungLa Pass which is at an elevation of 17,768 ft.. Once over the pass we will head down to Jomson where we will catch a flight to Pokhara. Total length of the trek is 13 days. Spending a rest day in Pokhara we will make our way back to Kathmandu via air.
Not much time to catch our breath as the following day we are off to begin our second trek, Everest Base Camp “Modified”. It begins by catching a flight to Lukla which is listed as the most dangerous airports to land and depart from in the world. Should be an interesting flight! Once we touch down we will make our way from Lukla to Namche Bazaar. We will spend one day here acclimatizing and taking a few side trips. Then it’s off to Dingboche for another rest day. From there we will traverse over KongmaLa Pass, elevation of 18,159ft, on our way to Gorak Shep. From Gorak Shep we will climb to Everest Base camp, 17,400ft. and Kala Patter, 18,192ft.
Then it’s on to Gokyo via ChoLa Pass ,17,611ft.. We will spend 3 days in Gokyo making day trips seeing all 5 lakes along the Ngozumpa glacier. Our final leg home will be via RenjoLa Pass,17,585ft., through Thame back to Lukla. Total length of the trek is 17 days.
You should do a video like this: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2011/10/the-water/246579/
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