towards gokyo

we took a long walk from gorakshep to zonglha, where we rested a night before deepak took me across the cho la. again, the weather was lousy. in fact, the weather would not improve much over the subsequent days, which somewhat marred the experience from here on.

there was not much of a view from cho la. but we crossed it nevertheless, scrambling up big boulders, walking across a glacier, climbing up a steep scree slope, and then down and across a valley, and another hump before a gentle descent all the way to thagnak.

the next day we crossed the ngozumpa glacier to get to gokyo. the day was nice as the sun shone through the clouds and there was some blue sky. but again the clouds came in. by the time we reached gokyo, there was no view of the lake or surrounding mountains.

the morning i summitted gokyo ri was the worst =(