Comms at last!!

Finally have comms now we've set up the Began (satellite internet communications). So... since I was last in touch, to recap:

Spent a couple of days at Thame. At Thame we went to a monastery behind the village for a Puja, then on to DinJung for a night before arriving at Arya where we spent two nights. We then started the camping phase of the trek and camped before the Renjo Pass by Renjo Lake at around 4850 metres. Played boules on the beach by the lake.

The following day we went over the Renjo pass at around 5300m and dropped down to Gokyo.  A lovely but tough walk due to the fact we are still acclimatising. On 13 April we left Gokyo with the intension of camping by the 5th lake but the weather closed in and so after getting to the top of a small peak at 5475m we returned to Gokyo.

On the 14th we walked down the glacier to Dragnag and today we’ve walked up to just under the Cho La pass and are currently camping at around 5050m. Tomorrow we hope to go over the pass and drop down to spend the night at Dzonglha.

All going well so far, but the weather could have been a little bit better.

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