The journey from Lhasa, Tibet to Pokhara, Nepal was both stunning and dismaying, awesome and frustrating, saddening, maddening, funny and sunny but at times very, very cold! Seven layers in To-bed is really no joke!... 1. Two pairs of socks 2. Thermal long johns 3. Warm trakkie trousers 4. Thermal top 5. Thick fleece jumper 6. Thermal fleece hat 7. Fleece gloves ... and that's before getting into a thick hooded sleeping bag, on top of and below as many blankets I could find! This was how I survived the night we spent in a place called Rhonghpu - the last place you can stay before Everest Base Camp - the temperature outside was minus 10 degrees C or less and it wasn't much warmer in the unheated room we slept in, which had thin walls
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