Archive for January, 2008
Cho Oyu South Base Camp
By Tony on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
We both love Cho Oyu – from the Tibetan side and the Nepali side! For that reason, we decided to hike from Gokyo to Cho Oyu base camp, a very long 20-kilometer (12 mile) trek roundtrip through hills of glacial rubble along the Ngozumpa Glacier up past the fourth and fifth lakes towards the sixth lake region.
Few trekkers actually continue all the way to Cho Oyu because of the length of the trip and the remoteness of the location, but that didn’t stop us. » Continue reading this post »
Gokyo Valley
By Thomas on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The highlights of the Gokyo valley were – surprise, surprise – the amazing mountain scenery and a series of glacial lakes situated along the moraine of the Ngozumpa Glacier. What was totally unexpected and quite eerie was the moaning of » Continue reading this post »
Musk Deer
By Tony on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re Famous
By Tony on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re famous! Well, kind of.
Sitting around the yak dung stove in a lodge in Machermo, we were telling the story about coming over that pass in Tibet and mistaking Cho Oyu for Mt. Everest. Remember when I jumped out of the car oohing and aahing about how beautiful Everest was while I was photographing Cho Oyu?
Just as I was getting to the punch line, a Malaysian guest named Kit blurted out, “Oh, and you weren’t photographing Everest, you were photographing Cho Oyu by mistake! Yeah, I read about that on the Internet.”
We looked at him in disbelief. It turns out that he had stumbled on to ContemporaryNomad.com while researching the Everest region for his trip to Nepal. How weird is that?
Sherpas are People Too
By Thomas on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
“Sherpa,” for many Western people, has become synonymous with “porter.” Often times on the trek I overheard people saying, “My Sherpa always eats daal bhaat…” or “When I talked to my Sherpa…” Fact is that Sherpa doesn’t mean porter, it is the name of an ethnic group living in the Khumbu region. It would be like saying, “My Californian can carry more than yours.” » Continue reading this post »
