16/17 - Manaslu Annapurna: Thorong Phedi - Thorong La - Muktinath

Finally, and after 16 stages the great day arrives! Take the step that also gives this user a name, it is the step that we could not do eight years ago. And now we are just one step away from doing it.

We wake up already the last day at 3 in the morning, today it costs, it costs a lot. We introduce ourselves to breakfast at the agreed time and neither the cooks nor anyone who slept in the dining room has been removed ... We wait and wait ... while we begin to see how other hotels start to rise.
Once breakfasts go out, and the first vision I have is impressive, some zagues formed by frontal lights that leave me speechless. We are lots of people!

We started the climb gradually, without pause and trying to get the big groups to move forward faster. We go through the High Camp and we see the stores that we had commented on.
We continue to move forward and we find quite a few pieces of ice cream, we must carefully avoid falling down, when we already turn off the frontals, we see a teahouse that once again helps us to recover from the cold and return to our lives.

We continue the journey already with the light of day that shows us the wonders around us and we will follow the path of people that takes us to the Thorong La.
We are here for a while, to take the photos and enjoy the moment, it gives me the feeling that it ends very quickly and that we must start the descent right now ... today, we already say goodbye to the heights and begin the path of back home

We know that a good descent awaits us until Muktinath.
Let's dig out some hard boiled eggs and Manaslu bread that make us look like marvels, what wins they cause the heights;)

Once at Muktinath we can already say that the three most difficult stages have already been completed, and the hot shower at the hotel is like our gift.

Alert: on the way we find several people who are not well. One of them is a Nepali who has come with a group of friends and yesterday he was no longer well and at halfway he decided to take a donkey to go up to the pace. The case is that the descent has not stopped vomiting and wandering, something that has given us all very worried, they have given a diamond but nothing, the boy was still alike. Not lowering 1000m was better. The final told us that they had to enter a hospital due to heightened illness and suppose that with edema. The day before, a girl from the High Camp had also been taken for not having dropped off on time.
Good acclimatization is essential for the success of the route, and it is essential to know how to recognize the symptoms and, above all, to lower it when necessary. Your life is much more important than being able to say that you have taken a 5400m pass.