Day 524 - Yak Kharka - Thorong Phedi (4450m)

The walk to Thorong Phedi was a little hard on the heart and lungs, but we made it by lunch time and managed to get the last double room left in the whole town - well it's not really a town, but more like 2 huge hotels perched on the hill. After a yummy lunch of dhal bhat we climbed the 500 vertical metres to High Camp to help with acclimatisation, and at the top we played around on rocks perched on the cliff edge while enjoying mountain views that surrounded us and gave us an indication of the height to come tomorrow!
We are slowly (but surely) getting sick of all the huge tour groups doing the trek - not only do they walk furiously slow (clicking their ski sticks as they go) but that book all the rooms in advance and always get their food before us, even when we order first!!! But, the good thing about crossing the Throng-La Pass (which we'll do tomorrow) is that so many people think it's necessary to leave at ungodly hours like 2am in the morning, that by the time we leave around 5.30am all the big groups will be well gone!!!

Adlibing it up and down.