Unexpected events on Annapurna Circle

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The plan
Annapurna Circle... Il should be a cool and easy trek, a pleasant and varying route, travelled through by thousands of tourists, most of them on guided tours, every year. Some individual people, couples or small parties, accompanied or note by guides and porters, also take up this challenge, while I chose to trek solo, under my own means, an adventurous way suitable for my independence feeling and my wish to be self-sufficient.

Well, of course, Thorong La is on the way. This mythic pass is often, wrongly put as the highest in the world. 17972 feet (5478 m) is indeed a respectable altitude, but others himalayan passes crossed by pilgrims or travellers exceed it. I have crossed myself about 19000 feet' one (5700 m) in east of Nepal, between Khumbu and Rolwaling areas. Any how Thorong La is a serious obstacle when trekking around Annapurna massif and some people meet with accidents there. The most severe danger is mountain sickness induced by oxygen rarefaction, whose it's easy to take precautions against following some mountaineering well-known rules.

Serene and trusting in success on this trek, I take off to Nepal at the beginning of March. Now the adventure won't go off precisely according to plan...

But let's not look too far ahead. For the present, I'm back in captivating Kathmandu...

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