More Annapurna

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Hi all,

First of all many thanks for all the kind congratulation messages on here and on facebook, email etc. It's been a bit surreal being in the middle of nowhere and not celebrating as we would if we where at home - so it's been nice to get all the messages from friends and family.

We're now in Manang and enjoying a couple of rest days. We'd been trekking for 9 days straight so it's good to stick the feet up. Our tea house is relatively luxurious, we have an en-suite lang drop with shower, which is warm between 2 and 3 in the afternoon!! There's even a tiny wee cinema in the town, it's only got 4 different DVDs to watch but it feels like the height of civilisation compared to the last couple of weeks. We're currently at 3,500m and both feel fine which hopefully bodes well for the climb to come.

From here we'll hopefully go higher over 3 days up over Thorang La at 5,300m, around 17500ft. Fingers crossed we'll both feel ok!! The views are amazing all around us with 8,000m peaks and glaciers everywhere.

Hope all's well back home, we'll hopefully be back on in a few days.

Donald & Snoddy. xx

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