Day 9 Manang(3,540m)- Yak Karta (4,050m) Keen to regroup after our disastrous days (the guys had got completely lost up another mountain and had to retreat back to Manang) we set off for Yak Karta. It was good to have some banter for the journey and the guys were particularly keen on tea breaks so we managed 2 tea breaks and 1 lunch stop on a 3 hour journey! Lunch was an experience, we stopped at a place where the owners were away taking their son to start schoo...

Day 7 & 8 Ice Lake (4,620 m) In the mountains it's almost impossible to have a lie in as everyone else is up at the crack of dawn, battering about so at 7.30 having hardly slept at all I gave up on my lie in and threw all my plans from the night before of taking it easy out the window and decided to do the trip to Ice Lake! To be honest I blame Lucas a German guy staying in our guesthouse who had said his friend told him it was the most spectacular day of ...