Sunday, June 6, 2010

Day 20. Sun. 23rd May. Eastern Pass 5,340 m. - 17,519 ft. Mesokantu La High Pass 5,400 m. - 17,716 ft. Camp, High Kharka

A tough day this. 17.5 km. virtually all over 5,000 m. We started at sunrise.Great views of glaciers and the Great Barrier.

Malcolm spotted this ammonite. At 5 km. up in the sky we were really walking along the bed of the Tethys sea from 100 million years ago.
This is the only glimpse we got of the summit of Annapurna I, climbed by Herzog & Lachenal 60 years before.
We had a little bit of rope-assisted descent.
Eventually our campsite - and don't John & Jeremy look pleased to be there?

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