16'G - WHISKI NALAH - NAKEELA LA 4915 - SARCHU 17'G- SARCHU - BARALACHA LA 4850 - DARCHA

Unfortunately Wikiloc has canceled the stage of 09/13 and 09/14

Departed on the 13th morning from the Whiski Nalah camp after the highest night at 4780mt and more cold -4.5 * immediately uphill to overcome the nearby Nakeela pass The 4915mt, then a panoramic and long traverse at altitude takes us over the 21 hairpin bends called Gata Loops that descend giving us a spectacular scenery over the valley below, once we reach the bottom we begin the slight ascent of the valley made difficult by the contrary wind, but the show continues, the river with its fantastic and jagged banks gives us the charge to continue until Sarchu, a cluster of shacks used as restaurants and dormitories, we prefer to continue for a few kilometers until the first camp where we will spend the night.

Departed on the 14th morning from the camp of Sarchu slightly uphill on the wide asphalted road recently, but things change quickly and for us lovers of dirt roads, the beauty arrives, having reached the first bends the road becomes a dirt road with frequent work in progress, we climb anyway well the slope is never excessive, after a bend we notice a deviation that leads to the ford of a stream there are trucks, cars, and motorcycles trying to pass, there is also an excavator that tries to fix the bed of the stream for improve the passage, we note that the closed road leads to a bridge we approach over there are a dozen workers, the bridge is missing all the central part of the plan there are only a few sleepers a few centimeters wide the others are all twisted perhaps for a failure , we don't want to make the ford and then we ask to pass on the sleepers we are told no! we insist several times at the end they consent and little by little we are able to pass in equilibrium, we continue to climb up to where the valley widens reaching a row of tents with refreshment and places to sleep, we take lunch break, we always leave again uphill and we see a grouping in the distance of vehicles and people, when we arrive on the spot we see that they are all busy wading through a torrent and this time we do not run away, we begin our crossing by throwing some rocks to be able to pass jumping without falling into the water even with the help of some boy of the place we succeed in the enterprise, then it is returned to climb now on asphalt we are almost to the pass and some little steep a little more remembers us that we are to around 4800mt, ragiata the step we notice a cyclist Indian climbed from the opposite part two photos two chat and down for the long descent, without knowing it we pass the Zing Zing Bar the only point where you could spend the night, when we notice it or ramai we are too down and so we aim at the first village that is about twenty kilometers away where we find a room and a dinner.
Km ca 70 Altitude difference ca 800mt