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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. |
Interesting erosion formations a
short bit below Yurutse.
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| Back
in Rumbak (3960m) after a little more than 2h. We
choose not to go far this
day. It will be a hard day tomorrow. |
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. |
It
takes more than one additional hour from here to the pass, (4846m) seen
to the
right in the picture. Here we
are at about 4500m.
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Up at last, pheu! Here we are
looking back to Rumbak
far below. Remember that Rumbak
lies at almost 4000m altitude. The extreme colors of the
mountains makes it
almost magical up here! |
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. |
The
Indus Valley southeast of Leh, with snowcovered 6000m peaks in the
background.
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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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