Upcoming Clouds
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Finally Made It
Roughly at 16500 Feet
Last Camp before the Pass
Mad Piper
This is the same statue as in https://markus-spring.info/2020/11/lonely-piper-corona-blues/
Approaching Thorong La II
Friday Rose
Approaching Thorong La
More on Thorong La here in wikipedia
From Above
Even back then, a settlement structure that is exclusively adapted to pedestrians (and cattle) was extraordinary. Now of course a track for 4WD vehicles exists, and accomodations for tourists are plenty. It still is a strenous walk around the Annapurnas, but not that kind of adventure any more. Just imagine, 30 days without even a…
Mansplaining since a.d. 696
The old saline of Bad Reichenhall (the “hall” means salt) had its beginnings in the year 696. Mansplaining has probably continued seamlessly since then.
Leaving Manang for the Thorong La
Summer
Made with an adapted 60 years old slide projector lens.
Beauty has it’s (freezing) Price
Over the Roofs of Manang
Mother, Children
Maybe Annapurna I and cascading Ice
Chorten
Local Transport
Porch with a View
Manang Valley
The Ice Peaks greeted us
Three weeks in Rehabilitation
For three more weeks posting will continue in the https://markus-spring.info/common-places/ section, as I will try to regain flexibility and strength in my broken right elbow, now in full-day rehabilitiaton. In the ‘Common Places’ section of the blog, you will find scanned slides of my 1981 trekking tour around the Annapurnas in Nepal.
Not The Bend
Leaving the Lowlands
The Valley gets narrower
