Step Into My Shoes..

October 26th, 2018 We woke up for the last morning at Dobato. Breakfast was normal - roti, tarkari, boiled egg, tea. Honestly speaking, we were getting bored of it by then. I tried changing my breakfast to a western one, but the hotel dai said breads were hard to get by and we should've informed them earlier. Too bad we were busy resting our exhausted bodies. After viewing the morning sun hit the Himalayas from so close for one last time, we started off towards our next destination - Ghorepani.  We had to descend from 3426 m to 2874 m, but descending in the mountains doesn't necessarily mean just going down. It is an adventure full of walking downhill, climbing and sometimes treading on a straight path. Sometimes when we would get tired of all the walking, we would just look at Ghorepani, which we could see from most of the path we were walking on, we would always joke, if only there was this bridge between here and there (Ghorepani). I mean how ...

"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence." - Hermann Buhl October 25th, 2018 16:09 - Pode, Chauri Goth. [scared] As I sat there under the rock, the speed with which snow was gathering on the ground was no match with the thoughts that were running inside my head.  What if there was a blizzard? What if someone with bad intentions came to get me? What if a snow leopard came? What if my friends did n't come back?  And at the same time, I was wondering if it was such a good idea to leave the place. What if my friends came back and didn't find me there? What would they go through? Would they waste any more of their time trying to find me? Those were very intense two minutes, because my head hadn't finished processing these questions when I heard my friend come running - shouting my name. I had never felt such relief in my life. My legs had almost started to feel gelatinous. Apparently they were forced to retreat immediately as the snowfall ...

October 25th, 2018 After a disorderly night, at exactly 6 am I woke up, partly because of the cold, partly because of the excitement of waking up so near the mountains and partly because I had to pee. I tried to see the mountains from the window of my room but the whole glass was frosted so I was compelled to go out in the cold. And since my phone wasn't working in terms of network and the Internet, I couldn't tell what the temperature was. The day seemed clear enough in the morning. Only a few of us managed to get up to witness the golden morning light that slowly seeped into the mountains so beautifully spread out in front of us. But I'm glad I could be alone to breathe the crisp mountain air by myself. My friends started stirring out of their sleep (just as uncomfortable) slowly and we decided to walk about 20 minutes to a view point called Muldai View Point that was located right behind our hotel (Hotel Dobato View Point). We left our bags at the hote...