…. or google earth view. While stading at the top, a choba comes to this height, over six thousand meters height. It looks like the old tales where an animal come to deliver a message from the gods and go. I have been so afraid during the ascension that I only want to come to […]
Himalaya’s trekking on 2017 – Ascension to the Island Peak and going back to Dingbuche
We went to bed at 6pm to be ready to get up at midnight. I used an sleeping pill and ear plugs to avoid the snores of the colleague. The sleeping bag has forst on the outside. I get out early and X. gets mad at me because I did not leave the tent completely […]
Himalaya’s trekking on 2017 – From Chhukkung to Island Peak Base Camp
We walk through a path that seems taken from another planet, full of smashed rocks, like from a film of the Riddick chronicles, a desert. We don’t cross or see other trekkers but we see the Island Peak on the distance and follow that direction. Luis, Tomás. and I go first and soon we find […]
Himalaya’s trekking on 2017 – From Ding Buche to Chhukkung
I slack on the bed while X. prepares his stuff. So without changing clothes I have the breakfast first, and then go to select the pieces that we won’t carry to Chhukkung. Since the house is powered by solar energy, the powerbank is only charged to a half so the hostess only charge half the […]
Himalaya’s trekking on 2017 – From Phortse to Machermo
Today I took my breakfast with milk and a porridge based on corn and my usual black coffee.The others have grown fond of the masala tea and they order it at each presented chance.We wave goodbye to the kind hosts, in my case, they shake my hands with some words in spanish, and also we […]
Himalaya’s trekking on 2017 – Leaving Kathmandu
The hotel was busy with some celebration, it seems like a wedding The first thing that came to my attention is the amount of traffic on the streets, a river of cars and motorbikes and the traffic light that probably went abandoned 30 or 40 years ago. So the only way to cross this street […]
Himalaya´s trekking on 2017 – Days of preparation
Days of preparation. All started with a poster. This is the second post with the chronicles of the travel I did to Nepal on 2017, including the Trekking on the himalayas and the ascension to the Imja Tse (Island Peak). Yes, all started with a poster. It was during my second visit to Oseling, that […]
Himalaya´s trekking on 2017
During October 2017 I embarked myself on an adventure that took me across the world to a place that is revered by many: by tourists that seek to visit the colourful Kathmandu; by trekkers that adventure themselves on the natural park around the highest peaks of the world that is also the home of the […]