This was yesterday. We are at Lingshed now. Vikram is slightly happy with his Cognac. Milan is doing Reiki like thing on Bhavna. Amrita is chilling out. Tsering came to switch on two solar lamps. Tania walked in with water. Ajay's gone back trekking to make phone calls with the single satellite phone in the village.
Yesterday - our Day 3 - was interesting. It was a short hike. Too much snow. I walked for a bit without my cramp-ons and slid and fell 4-5 times. Finally, I wore them again. I walked slowly and deliberately. There were too many people at the Nyeruk camp site. The kriya is different in these regions - goes deeper. I recall a waterfall from yesterday - a huge one. It was frozen, textured - so cold - with water dripping slowly inside of it. Before that there was a tree - a juniper tree - with several Buddhist prayer flags attached. I liked it.
There was soy and beans and dal and rice for dinner. Yum, yum. Jai ho Padma Wangtak!
Milan talked to everyone about the Lingshed trek the night before. Mainly about the difficulty levels. At one point he said, "In adventure lingo - we are talking about 'commitment' - once you are committed, you'll kick and crawl but make it."
I didn't find the hike to be really difficult but it was good to be mentally over-prepared. There were spots where a slip meant "end of story." There was also lots of snow. We saw a cave with stalactites and stalagmites - totally amazing. Water was slowly dripping. Mammut was kinda dizzy and nearly fainted at some points. No one rode the horse so I did. Lots of fun.
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