Part I – Base Camp Part II – The Ascent Part III – The Descent The Descent to Biskeri Thatch, the next lower camp at 11000 ft., is by far the most arduous but again most exciting too. Over half of the journey is through very slippery snow hardened at places into ice. Two Sherpas [...]
Part I – Base Camp Part III – The Descent Part II – The Ascent On the 20th (3rd day) we woke up bright and early with expectation heavy in the air. After double checking our backpacks and packing our lunch we got a pep talk from the director of the camp. YHAI gave us [...]
Part II – The Ascent Part III – The Descent Part I – Base Camp This Summer I decided to do something different. I decided to climb. When I was in college we used to go on these one day trekking expeditions to nearby Ooty and Kodaikanal. Now I was older and significantly heavier but [...]