The morning of day eight offered brief glimpses of the mountains ahead of us, until a thick layer of clouds rolled in. Trekking wise the day was to be a good test of our capacity, having us go up and down in altitude like no other day before.
We started the day with a great breakfast at our nice Chhomrong lodge. Hitting the trail we ventured way down to a nearby river canyon. As everyone knows in Nepal, what goes down must come up, so the next hour and a half was spent scaling up a mountainside. This of course happened to be the place where we ran into an Australian school outing, and of course we had to overtake them in a hurry. Wifey led the way, and I wheezed and coughed along behind her. Stopping to breathe in the middle of overtaking them would have been embarrassing, so we had to pass the whole lot of them in one go. I rank this part as the most strenuous part of the whole trek, but Jaime just chuckles at me when I try to interest her in my complaints.
The rest of the trek follows the valley of the Modi Khola river. The valley forms a long chute, dotted here and there with small clusters of cottages. Our target for the day was the village of Himalaya Hotel, named after one of the two lodges there.
During parts of the day, the skies cleared up a bit and we couldn’t help but stop in awe at some of the views we caught. Machhapuchhre put on an especially spectacular show.
The video of the day features none other than Mr Martin, so do enjoy this rare sighting.
The end part of the day’s trek felt very long, and I guess we were beginning to feel a bit run down by the time we hit a completely fogged in Himalaya Hotel. We feasted on the mandatory dahl bhat (rice with lentil soup), shared a few stories with the assembled hikers and snuggled up in our sleeping bags as fast as we could.
Day eight could easily be divided into two, but only if the weather is somewhat nice. Walking all the way to Himalaya Hotel however did put us in an excellent position to make it to the ABC the day after at a far more relaxed pace.
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