Sadly, the weather did not clear in the morning, and so there was no sunrise climb of Poon Hill. I had caught a glipmse of Annapurna South the evening before during a brief clearing, so I had some idea of what I was missing. I had really wanted to see Annapurna I since it was the first 8,000 meter peak that was summited, as well as Machhapuchhare because of its holy, unclimbed status and "fish tail" shape, but I had seen so many views of gorgeous peaks when we were in Manang and Muktinath that I was not too disappointed. It was overcast, cool, and humid when we started out descent to Tikhedhungga, but not raining. Tikhedhungga's elevation is 1480 meters, so we had about 1300 meters elevation to lose during the hike. This meant a
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