The day after we had walked through the white out to reach Camp 1 on Kyajo Ri, we actually realized that we were about 50 m lower and 200m away from our Ideal campsite – it would give us a view of our objective but more importantly it would also get the SUN about 45 […]
Kyajo Ri 2019 Mende to Camp 1 via Basecamp
We’ve spent the last few days in Namche – sorting gear -washing cloths – resorting food and getting loads to Basecamp prepared. We expect a reasonable amount of snow on the route compared to the drier conditions that this time of year normally brings. Namche has been a good place to rest and watch the […]
Heather and I are now actually down in Phortse – only about 3 hours from Namche. Over the last 7 days we’ve been slowly making our way to Gokyo Ri to acclimatise ourselves to the altitude we need to enable us to function at Camp 1 on Kyajo Ri A slow trek is an absolute […]