Kanglacha – mountain named Stok Kangri by the British, is really popular amongst foreigners since the 80s. This relatively easy six thousand-er can be done in 3 days from Leh. The record time to climb it is supposedly 10h 45min, done by some German guy, as the locals say.
While resting between trekkings, just before starting the new one, we decided to go rafting on Zanskar river. We started from Chiling and swimmed down about 25km to raft bay near Nimu village which took us about 3 hours. This quite popular route was graded III+ white water and, from our experience, going through some rapids and currents was challenging…
Leh isn’t boring – even after the season. In the beginning of September there is annual Ladakh Marathon going on (www.ladakhmaraton.com) – really popular race among locals – Run for Green and Clean Ladakh. Fortunately we were able to start in this year edition. In four-person team on 8th of September we managed to run 10 km, and all of that above 3600 m!
Having had enough of continuous planning, resolving remaining issues, and staying in our little house, we set course to the north and went to the Tri-City. As we didn’t want just to hang around, we took guides, computers and other materials, we wanted to also do some biking there -there is an idea to travel through Myanmar on two wheels – to check if it fits us.
Now with the new force and enthusiasm we’re attacking other points on our TODO list :). We leave in two days. Keep your fingers crossed!
