Prayer wheels

We were faced with a difficult decision. Whether to leave today, or to take an extra day to walk to Poon Hill. Even though we all had had enough, we decided to go out with a bang and do the Poon Hill thang. Unfortunately, this involved a 1500 m climb. It was insane, and was eight hours of climbing. Sometimes up stone steps, sometimes slippery marble steps, sometimes rocks, and sometimes just dirt. But it was up all the way. The elevation change was so extreme that it was sweltering and humid at the outset, and cold and windy when we finally got to Gorapani at 5. This was the most we climbed in one day, even more than when we crossed Thorong La. I promptly got into my sleeping bag and went to sleep, only slightly disturbed by the shouting Germans next door. The team woke me up for dinner at 8, the I went back to bed.