Back to Manang
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005Hello everyone, hope you’re all happy…..
We’ve had 3 really tough days but not in the way I’d hoped, and I’m bitterly disappointed to be back in Manang and heading back down the valley the way we came……
On Thursday just after my last post the decision was taken to push on in about 2ft of snow up to the next stop, Yak kharka. A 3hr walk took over 5 hours in a blizzard and at one point I was on my own. Although i knew 3 people were ahead of me and 7 behind, and that there was only one path, I had to control some panic inside as visibility was about 100 yards and I could hear avalanches coming down the mountainside on the other side of the river. it was near white-out. I pulled it together and plodded up to Yak Kharka at 13,500 feet.