OUCH!! Thighs, calves and knees needed stretching this morning! No time for whinging though, onwards and upwards.....well, after crossing my nemesis, namely a big rickety wooden bridge, which I'm sure was moving more due to my legs shaking on every step! Past this (and a few deep breaths for recovery) we started our days ascent. A full day upwards including practically scrambling at some points - I loved every minute :) Randomly got "High on a hill" song in my head which I proceeded to hum to myself most of the way.... laheo a laheo a lay he ho! Got to our camp at Cormshing hill very quickly, past more amazing views and a few moments where if I looked down too long I started to get vertigo!!! First side effects of Doxycycline became apparent today, at lunch realised my painful hands were due to sun burn (which I had probably got on day one, but didn't turn red until this morning, weird, but no longer surprised by random things happening!) Sunburnt hands, nowhere else, just from my index finger to my thumb...I mean come on......really!!! On the bright side at least I haven't had any other side effects! Had a proper camp fire in the evening (marshmallows, where are you when I need you!) and a few beers in preparation for day off and lie in tomorrow.....Ram gave us some great insight into different Nepalese cultures this evening, including air burials where villagers take the body of their loved one to the top of a mountain and after a period of mourning, men from a neighbouring village (have a large drink first) then chop the body into 108 pieces and leave the remains for the vultures. Any left over bone is then cremated. Also the villages where one woman will marry a husband, and then will be shared by his brothers (must be knackering) and the village where any child which dies before its first birthday is put into a box, then in the roof until the next child is born and will then be cremated. Intriguing how villages within cultures are all so different!