It’s a very bumpy 3-hour drive on a yak track to Tingri, a small town overlooking a sweeping plain bordered by towering Himalayan peaks. Some people hike from Base Camp to Tingri in 3-4 days. It doesn’t look easy.
After a lunch of vegetable curry and rice, we’re racing across the Tibetan plateau again to Nyalam, a checkpoint town 30 kilometres from the Nepali border. The landscapes are some of the most beautiful I’ve seen – sweeping plains, snowy peaks and endless blue skies. I’ve run out of superlatives to describe them.
On the way to Nyalam we drive through our final pass – the Nyalam-Tongla Pass - at 5120 metres.
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