An "easy, steady day" says Dhana. The actual walking time was just over 4 hrs- that certainly constitutes easy. Right? Nope, the walk was actually pretty damn hard work. We took a trail heading down from Lobouche towards what appeared to be a frozen lake, it was actually just ice covering the valley floor- super slippery stuff but really fun. We had our little crampons on which we were really grateful for. Our only tourists this morning were four Chileans who were also planning on crossing the Chola Pass too, they were slipping and sliding even more than us. After about 30 mins of ice slipping on the flat we scaled up a steep, barren hill- on all fours at times, to reach a more defined trail. This trail ran parallel with the one that we
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