Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Here we go....To Gokyo

The Blog is back!

Prepare for some mildly amusing stories, pictures and more...and also a slew of typos and spelling errors....I'm glad you stopped by and hope you enjoy sharing this with me.
.
The trip begins on October 7th with flights from Minneapolis to Chicago, a quick connection in Chicago and on to Doha, Qatar, a long connection in Doha and then a flight to Kathmandu, the Capitol of Nepal.  Roughly 7,500 miles away.  A big number.

All said I should arrive on the evening of the 9th with flights, layovers, and time changes.

The plan is to spend a day or two in Kathmandu then fly out to Lukla in the mountains and trek through the Khumbu valley to the Gokyo Ri peak and lakes.

Here is a map of Nepal and the area I'll be trekking


Here is the location of Gokyo - it is in the same valley at Mt Everest.  (albeit much smaller:)


Here is the elevation I'll be at with a max elevation close to 19,000 with a side trip here or there.


And finally here is a rough map of where I'll be headed when up in the mountains.



So feel free to come back and visit.  I'll try to update when I can and with some interesting nuggets and photos.  Feel free to leave a comment or question and I'll do my best to get back to you.

I also should have email access periodically throughout so you can drop me a line there also.

The adventure begins!




No comments:

Post a Comment