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Day
3, 11/7 2015: Brake up time in the morning, at Ganda La Base
Camp
4330m. Everyone is going either up or down. We are going back
down to
the
village Rumbak at just below 4000m. |
Back at Yurutse 4150m, after only half an
hour. |
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Interesting erosion formations a
short bit below Yurutse. |
Back
in Rumbak after a little more than 2h. We choose not to go far this
day.
It will be a hard day tomorrow. |
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We
use a homestay, where you get food and a bed (well, a matress on the
floor)
for a reasonable fee. The food is simple but good, and you
get enough. In
Rumbak they use a rotating system for who is going to bring
in the guests.
Smart, I'd say. |
Day
4, 12/7 2015: After breakfast, we leave Rumbak and start the tough climb
towards Stok La and Stok Ri. We will climb 1000
altitude
meters, then descend
1400, and all this with full packing. |
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Heavy clouds are covering the
peaks. There is no good weather in the beginning,
but it will be
better. The closer we get to the pass, the steeper it gets. |
Dante
climbing far below. The picture is taken at about 4400m. |
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It
takes more than one additional hour from here to the pass, seen to the
right in
the picture. Here we
are at about 4500m. |
Up at last, pheu! Here we are
looking back to Rumbak far below. Remember that
Rumbak
lies at almost 4000m altitude... |
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At the other side of
the pass, a group with horses reach the so called false pass.
The
reason for this name is, that if you climb from the other side this
seems to be
the high point, just until you reach it and then discover
the real pass |
But
we continue our climb, now with light packing, up to the summit of Stok
Ri
5002m. It requires some scrambling on a few places, but
there are no
real
difficulties. In the background, in clouds, is Parcha
Kangri, 5590m. |
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Now
we get a stroke of luck, a bearded vulture comes gliding almost right
above
us. This is a true giant, with a wingspan of about 2,7m.. |
The
bearded vulture once again. |
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The
Indus Valley southeast of Leh, with snowcovered 6000m peaks in the
background. |
After
an exhausting descent, we are approaching the finish of our 4 day trek.
The
village Stok lies straight ahead, and from there we can take
a Taxi
back to Leh.
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