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Post by trailrunningnepal on Jan 17, 2018 7:56:05 GMT -5
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Post by trailrunningnepal on Jan 11, 2018 17:45:08 GMT -5
JUST TO ADD a map to the discussion. The Great Himalaya Trail "high route" has tended to finish are the north basecamp of Kanchenjunga - as far to the top west corner as you can go. South basecamp would not be to dissimilar as you're staring at an 8000m peak there too i.e. the Great Himalaya Range. There is a whole bunch of discussion too about "network of trails", "high route / lower route", "runnable" (without crampons or axe). All have valid arguments. And thus is you are going to make a FKT attempt of the GHT (in Nepal) then the selected route should have a name and be published, just to be clear what the person is undertaking, and which specifically difficulties they decided to include and exclude from the menu of choices available, and nice if the reasons are stated too, as that is helpful for others. If you are going to hit the highest parts of Dolpo, where you won't see any habitation for 3 to 5 days (and many villages are too poor to even raise a simple meal for you), then that is a very different undertaking (navigation, preparation, mental strength, load carried) to the (lovely) route slightly south. Want to cross the Tashi Lapsta? Beware of rockfall, crevasses and difficult, maze-like navigation, be prepared to carry crampons, and take 24 hours to get to the next shelter. Or head south of there on the old Everest base Camp trail - longer, but populated, low altitude etc etc. And finally, if you do a FKT, don't call it a world record. That would be silly.
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Post by trailrunningnepal on Jan 11, 2018 2:24:14 GMT -5
You might want to check this out from 2016 when Lizzy Hawker crossed Nepal using a pretty high, high route, that means plenty of 5000m passes. spark.adobe.com/gallery/gallery-editors-choice/example/journey/There are so many route options, and people have different ideas about what constitutes a trail crossing the "Great Himalaya" range, at least in the bounds of Nepal. Any thoughts from other posters?
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