Kyajo Ri

Date:

02.11.2016

Gokyo Ri

Date:

24.10.2016

Baruntse

Date:

30.10.2011

Characteristic:

Expedition

After having summited Mera Peak and spent the night at Kongme Dingma with a good meal and cake for dessert, we were mostly ready to continue towards Baruntse. I had hoped that the sore throat and cold-like symptoms I had from Mera Peak high camp would have disappeared when I woke up this morning but unfortunately that wasn’t the case and I was feeling just as wiped out and generally not-in-form as the previous day. Fortunately the approach to the next camp at Five Lakes wasn’t going to be the world’s most exhausting day of walking. The route basically followed the Honku river valley northwards with some impressive and huge mountainsides on both the west and east sides (although I don’t remember what the names of these peaks are). We had a very laid-back lunch around halfway to the next camp >>>

Mera Peak

Date:

18.10.2011

Characteristic:

Alpine trip

I joined a trip to Mera Peak and Baruntse which was organized by a UK-based company. Since I was travelling from Tromsø, I joined the rest of the group in Kathmandu after having taken a rather long route (Tromsø-Oslo-Bangkok-Kathmandu) with Thai Airways. We were a group of 9 people plus two trip leaders, Mark and Paddy – both of whom turned out to be ultra friendly and had a good sense of humour. 17th October 2011: In Lukla The first part of the trip was the approach to Mera Peak, which involved an early morning flight into Lukla situated at 2800m. We should have been walking to our next camp at Poyan after arriving in Lukla, but since there was some delay in getting the expedition equipment from Kathmandu to Lukla, we ended up spending a night in Lukla and generally relaxing. What I was >>>

Island Peak

Date:

19.11.2008

Characteristic:

Hike

© Hannah Vickers After the exceptionally fantastic ascent of Lobuche East on my birthday, we had just one more peak to complete the 4-week trip around the Khumbu region of Nepal: Island Peak. Wednesday, 19th November 2008: Chukung to Island Peak BC After sleeping like a log for a decent 10 (or maybe even 11) hours, we began our journey to Island Peak Base Camp from the tea house in Chukhung under increasingly overcast skies, so it didn’t feel as warm as the previous day. It was a short 3-hour walk, which was immensely busy with climbing groups in comparison to the BC for Lobuche East . Once we arrived there was a luxurious mess tent waiting for us to dive into for hot drinks and lunch! It was kitted out with big, roomy chairs and a table laden with a huge selection of instant hot drinks :-) Amongst the selection of hot drinks were >>>

Lobuche East

Date:

17.11.2008

© Hannah Vickers Lobuche East was a memorable summit of a 4-week trip in Nepal. I joined a trip organised by a UK-based company (Adventure Peaks), it involved a lots of ups and downs (both physical and in the psychological sense!), much laughing and of course, spectacular views. But for me Lobuche East was the highlight of the trip because the ascent coincided with my 25th birthday .-) Sunday, 16th November 2008 Our approach walk to Lobuche East base camp was from Lobuche village, which was on the other side of the mountain. We had spent 2 days at Lobuche village after walking from Dzonghla, which was where we had stayed after our descent from the Cho La Pass. So to get back to the base camp, we were effectively retracing our steps from 2 days earlier, but not going as far back as Dzonghla. The base camp was >>>

Kala Pattar

Date:

13.11.2008

Gokyo Ri

Date:

09.11.2008