Day: April 23, 2019

So we had our first real “walk” in the mountains around base camp today getting up to around 5900m before heading down to the balmy depths of 5200m.  The weather was clear and sunny which meant we weren’t having to wear too much cold weather gear

I remember being pleased with how my body was handling the altitude particularly as I didn’t have the same fitness levels as most of the group.  I also remember this was the point that I was beginning to feel the effects of a chest infection which had spread around the group and that was to cause me issues further up the mountain.

I remember this as a genuinely pleasant walk with a few hair raising moments on some unstable ground when we realised that there weren’t really any “paths” as such in this part of the world.