Rainy 🌧 run 🏃‍♂️

It's getting warm here ♨️

Some bonus peak 🏔 that we found nearby 🔎

Spontaneous can work 🍀

Summer ski 🩳🎿

Early start at 4am 🕓. Low temperatures 🧊 at the start but beautiful mountains 🏔🏔 rising all around under the moonlight 🌓. Strava says it was -8°C at the start at 3800m.

Today was another "not running" day. Clever 💭 decision since pushing ourselves at 5000m might not be the best. The important thing was that everyone made it over the pass to do the last stage in the other side of the valley.

We kept walking up gaining meters and heading towards the sunrise 🌄. After about 2 hours we could see the alpen glow over Manaslu from another angle. It looked so close.

At km 6 and around 4400m there was a tea house but I missed it so I had 1 liter of water for the whole pass. I was quite at the end of the pack taking night 🔦 pictures and suddenly I realized that there wasn't anyone in front of me 🤔.

The views 👀 were getting nicer and snow ❄️ more consistant but the temperature despite the sun ☀️, was not getting warmer 🌡. At that time my liter of water was from my flasks were frozen 🧊.

I kept going and then started to see hikers who started at the same time but from the town at 4400m. The pass is very gradual and quite long. Last part all in the snow ❄️.

I got to the top 🔝 after about 12 kms and made some pictures 📸. Then Antonia, Wendy and Richard arrived shortly after and  we did some more pics and head down since it was quite cold 🧊 that even phones were freezing.

The way down ⬇️ was quite ok, manageable without micro-spikes and with a new view to another 8000m+, Annapurna.

The snow finished after the line of 4600m and then started a long rocky 🪨 trail. My watwr started to unfreeze at this point and I could drink a bit. We could not see the town until 1km before, so it seemed endless.

The town, Birmthang, was quite nice. A quite difference appearence, more close to the architecture of the Anapurna circuit.

Finally, shortly before noon 🕛, we arrived and did not feel very well..  headache was growing so I needed 2h of drinking liquids and eating some nuddles to get better. I wasn't the only one. Quite a few people was struggling like the past days.

Today will be our last night at altitude, around 3700m..our lungs 🫁 will feel oxygen flooding the next day when we run down ↘️.

#Route: Samdo - Larky La pass - Birmthang

#Larkya La pass: 5106m

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Rainy 🌧 run 🏃‍♂️

It's getting warm here ♨️

Some bonus peak 🏔 that we found nearby 🔎

Spontaneous can work 🍀

Summer ski 🩳🎿

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