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It was Kangchenjunga - literally, the "Five Treasure-Houses of Snow" - to send us the first light of the day while ascending to Mera Peak.
With its appearance, also the number of 8000 in sight grew to five. From left to right, it is preceded by Cho Oyu, Everest, Lhotse, Makalu. Looking at the overall ranking, the permutation is thus 6-1-4-5-3, with only N.2 (aka K2...) remaining out of reach.
11 HF, Sony RX10 III, 54 mm equiv, ISO 640, f/4, 1/250 sec.
Position: 27.711671 86.882225
6003 m GPS, probably 20 more.
Larger: http://bit.ly/2KmaRUq
GPS track: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=48429133
Hans-Jörg Bäuerle, Friedemann Dittrich, Jörg Engelhardt, Johannes Ha, Heinz Höra, Johann Ilmberger, Matthias Knapp, Martin Kraus, Wilfried Malz, Giuseppe Marzulli, Steffen Minack, Niels Müller-Warmuth, Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen, Danko Rihter, Werner Schelberger, Christoph Seger, Björn Sothmann, Konrad Sus, Jens Vischer, Augustin Werner
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Cheers, Hans-Jörg
In May, this time alone with a sherpa, but without porters, and thus carrying more than 21 kg on my shoulders, I concatenated the classical "around Manaslu" and "around Annapurna" treks. The first one culminates in the Larkya La, 5160 m, which you reach starting from 550 m, and the second one in the Thorung La, 5416 m. However, as you can infer from material already published, I put many add-ons inside this tour...
A very valid reference for the subject is the Lonely Planet book "Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya". The current, after-earthquake edition has also the advantage of a wonderful cover picture with the Gokyo lakes!
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