Reaching our summit at 4985m

Our third walking day starts under the sun, and since we are above the forest we have a great view on the 6000m and 7000m peaks around us. From the Langtang village we follow some budhist pilgrim path with ancient engraved stones.

We also start to see our target for tomorrow: it's the brown summit on the left of this picture, just below 5000m.

Around lunchtime, we reach our base camp "Kiangin Gompa" at 3900 where we'll spend the following 2 nights.


Our first day here gives up enough time to climb up to 2 summits at 4300m and 4600m respectively in order to aclimatise for the next day's walk.

Tonight is going to be an early night at 8pm since we are exhausted from the first summit and we'll have to get up at 5am the next day for the main summit. We enjoy a last cup of milk tea around the wood stove.

Just after 6.30am and our daily portion of cheese pasta, we start our walk under the shadow of the mountain.

Our first obstacles is a half frozen river which we have to cross.

We quickly reach the sunny side of the mountain under a blue sky as the day before. Yet the hike up is not as smooth as yesterday, and some of us start suffer from altitude sickness about half way up the mountain in spite of the aclimatisation.

The last couple of hundred of meters are really hard but yet the view on all the sunny peaks was really worth it.
Our lunch break on top of the mountain just made our symptoms worse so that the way down will not be enjoyable for most of us.