PRESSING ON

Those are the Porters. Look closely, they have approximately 10kg of their own mountain gear in their backpack, and an additional 20kg on their HEAD. And they are climbing twice as fast as us. Rangers course should be a breeze for these guys

Another awesome picture. We would be scaling that rock wall the next day.

Terrain gets tougher and steeper!

We were literally walking down a waterfall, one of the most fun experiences of the climb, though this part we had to descend a bit. 

The vast landscape before us.

Take a moment to enjoy the landscape, ZhenXiao

This is what it’s like to be “amongst the clouds”, a visibility of about 5 meters. Kinda like silent hill, a little creepy at times, but gives a whole new experience to the climb.

 Almost no more vegetations, just some grass and shrubs. It is raining too, despite the protection of our Goretex “armour”, it still manages to punch a hole in our morale.

That raven knows no fear, and loves the attention of cameras! The word “shy” simply doesn’t exist in its dictionary!

A distant mountain, with its peak penetrating the clouds. We are actually even higher than that already!

A strange curious-looking plant that collects water in its center. 

A piece of jackal’s goodies. Didn’t know such animals roam so high, it was already over 4000m at this point

Pushing on, adding on more and more layers as altitude rises and temperature falls.

Standing at the top of the world!

The SUMMIT is approaching!