The latest news from Stage 4

Tilman Pass, tick. What a great day on the GHT today - perfect weather for our last mountaineering pass (5308 metres, or 17,414 feet) and an unforgettable panorama to reward and enthral  us when we reached the pass.It was an early 5:30am start for the climb - this was to ensure the slopes would still be...

There it is, rising 350 metres above camp  - Tilman Pass. This is our objective for early tomorrow morning and it looks impregnable, with a massive rock wall on one side, a steep snow slope on the other, and a giant terraced glacier preventing a direct approach.At 5308 metres, Tilman Pass is the only chi...

We met both the full GHT group and the Panch Pokhari link section group yesterday 14th May. Today is our rest day for acclimatisation and mountaineering training before our last mountaineering pass of GHT  - Tilman Pass.Panch Pokhari is one of the well known religious pilgrimage spots. During the month o...

Today is our 68th day on the trail (not including rest days), and in all that time we have not had a decent shower - I mean rain shower of course, but I confess that the other type has been quite rare as well.Anyway, today the rain arrived. It rained most of last night at our campsite on Nyasem Khola (1838...

Annie though she was probably quite lucky to survive today's trek, but she didn't want me to write about it - which of course is exactly why I should.First was the unprovoked attack on Annie by masses of leeches. Yesterday we saw a lonely, solitary leech, and this prompted Annie to confess that she "hated" th...