Gosainkund to Tharepati via Laurebina La

Elevation: 3600m

Photo: One of the Gosainkund area lakes

Warmer and warmer and warmer. But still wearing two shirts and the down vest. No long johns under the skirt, but that’s cause they’re still wet – the joys of doing laundry too late to catch the sun and in high humidity to boot.

Played ‘tag’ with the group of Nepalis. They hadn’t slept much the night before due to headache, probably caused by the speed at which they ascended 1500m the day before. At the lodge the night before, I advised them to stay put for the day to acclimatize, but they ‘don’t have time for that’. We played tag again today, but had lost track of them once we climbed the first half of the 10-minute-long stretch of up hill.

We stopped at the only hovel on the trail for second lunches where three Tibetan guys were hanging out playing chess. They ended up passing us on the trail a few kilometers before Tharepati, therefore closing their lodge. Hopefully the other lodge near the hovel remained open so the Nepalis had somewhere to stop.

Stopped for the night at the first lodge we encountered (the other two were up hill where I was just not feeling able to go). Again encountered the Canadians, and added two Aussies, two Kiwis, an Israeli, and a gaggle of guides and porters to our rag-tag circle.