Day 133 - 4200 Metres. Manang to Letdar.

It says something for our acclimatization and fitness level when an almost 700 metre ascent feels like an easy day. The scenery is much the same as yesterday - arid hills, snowy peaks, blue skies.

Because of the elevation, the distance we cover each day is relatively short. Luckily we have fallen into the same schedule as the other UW girl and her two friends (one is a Brit they met in Kathmandu, the other a German who also went to UW). What could have been a long, dull afternoon in Letdar was a fun day of chatting and playing cards with a steadily expanding group - us, the Czechs, some more Americans - everyone is doing the short days walking and long afternoons acclimating, so there is plenty of time to be social.

One picture of note...there are plenty of goats by the pass, and we couldn't resist taking a picture of this fella. What makes this quite a bit of acrobatic display is the fact that the pass in which we took this picture from is only a meter wide, so if this guy took the wrong step, he would be taking a very long plunge into the valley. He doesn't seem too phased by that prospect.