There is a time for revolution and a time for doing the dishes
We are ten days into our hike and tomorrow we will cross Thorung La, a pass at about 5400 meters, or almost 18,000 feet. It is the toughest day of the hike and something we’ve been working towards for more than a week.
Tomorrow we will arise at 4:30 am, eat a quick breakfast and climb 1000 meters, or more than 3,000 feet up to the pass. After tha, we descend 1600 meters or about 5,000 feet before we stop for the evening. The trip is said to take an average of 9 hours, which is a much longer day than we’re accustomed to.
Aside from the hard climbing and descending bits, tomorrow should be one of the best days of the hike as well. We’ll be in the midst (well, we already are) of some of the tallest mountains on earth. It’s been cloudy for the last few days, but this morning, the mountains were clear and we got a good, up close look at a bunch of mountains that, were they on any other continent, would be the tallest in the area.
Yesterday was Anna’s birthday. It’s tough having a birthday on trail. She missed all the phone calls and singing. I tried to do the best I could to make up for it, but it wasn’t the same. I did manage to find a brownie in the middle of nowhere and sang to her, but the real presents, the suit and sweater, are still waiting in Kathmandu. I think that Anna still had a good birthday (she said so), but she missed all of you very much.
“There is a time for revolution and a time for doing the dishes.” –Eskel, the danish revolutionary we are traveling with.
Tags: Annapurna Circuit, Nepal, Travel
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Happy Birthday Anna, from the whole Ross family, we hope it is the best that can be expected…from being hidden away in the mountains without any lines of communication.
Thank you!!