Ice Lake (Aclimatación) - DÍA 4
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 10.61 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,173 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 4,173 ft
- Max elevation
- 15,318 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 11,316 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1558
- Uploaded
- October 31, 2017
- Recorded
- September 2017
near Manang (Nepal)
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09/25/2017 Total time of the route with stops: 08 hours.
We stopped to eat at the "Ice Lake Restaurant". Restaurant at 4,200 meters altitude.
Acclimatize day. Therefore, this day we start and finish the route in the same place. The good thing about this day is that you can go without your backpack, and leave your things at the hotel. (It is nice to rest a day without a backpack, haha).
The climb to "Ice Lake" from the village of "Bhraka" is 5 kilometers and has quite a positive slope. Halfway there is a Restaurant (in which we ate).
The views from "Ice lake" with one of the Annapurnas peaks in the background are extraordinary. Also in "Ice Lake" we found a large herd of Jak and his shepherd, which had a chamizo near the lake.
Instead of climbing to "Ice Lake", another popular option of acclimatization is to climb the "Templo Milarepas" at 4,050 meters altitude, and go back down to sleep at Manang.
THE STAGES OF OUR ROUTE WERE THE FOLLOWING:
Day 1. Besi Sahar - Chame (JEEP)
If it were done walking could be done in two or three days.
There is an option to go by local bus from "Besi Sahar to Bhulbhule" (9 kilometers away). Said bus leaves early in the morning.
Day 2. Chame - Upper Pisang
Day 3. Upper Pisang - Manang
Day 4. Acclimatization. Manang - Ice Lake - Manang
Day 5. Manang - Thorong Pedi
Performing this route in a single day is an error. This route must be completed in two days for the theme of Acclimatization. The ideal would have been "Manang - Yak Kharka" and "Yak Kharka - Thorong Pedi"
Day 6. Thorong Pedi - Yak Khraka
This day we retreated as a precaution to feel several symptoms of "Altitude sickness." When descending the 500 meters that exists between a population and another one, the symptoms disappeared and the following day we continued the march with normality.
Day 7. Yak Kharka - Thorong Pedi
Day 8. Thorong I asked - Thorong La - Muktinath
Day 9. Muktinath - Jomsom
Day 10. Jomsom - Tatopani (MTB)
If it were done walking this stretch would be done in two days. "Jomsom - Kalopani" and "Kalopani - Tatopani"
Day 11. Tatopani - Gorepani
Day 12. Gorepani - Poon Hill - Bhirentani
COMPLETE ROUTE with all Waypoints
COMPLETE ROUTE with the most important Waypoints
We stopped to eat at the "Ice Lake Restaurant". Restaurant at 4,200 meters altitude.
Acclimatize day. Therefore, this day we start and finish the route in the same place. The good thing about this day is that you can go without your backpack, and leave your things at the hotel. (It is nice to rest a day without a backpack, haha).
The climb to "Ice Lake" from the village of "Bhraka" is 5 kilometers and has quite a positive slope. Halfway there is a Restaurant (in which we ate).
The views from "Ice lake" with one of the Annapurnas peaks in the background are extraordinary. Also in "Ice Lake" we found a large herd of Jak and his shepherd, which had a chamizo near the lake.
Instead of climbing to "Ice Lake", another popular option of acclimatization is to climb the "Templo Milarepas" at 4,050 meters altitude, and go back down to sleep at Manang.
THE STAGES OF OUR ROUTE WERE THE FOLLOWING:
Day 1. Besi Sahar - Chame (JEEP)
If it were done walking could be done in two or three days.
There is an option to go by local bus from "Besi Sahar to Bhulbhule" (9 kilometers away). Said bus leaves early in the morning.
Day 2. Chame - Upper Pisang
Day 3. Upper Pisang - Manang
Day 4. Acclimatization. Manang - Ice Lake - Manang
Day 5. Manang - Thorong Pedi
Performing this route in a single day is an error. This route must be completed in two days for the theme of Acclimatization. The ideal would have been "Manang - Yak Kharka" and "Yak Kharka - Thorong Pedi"
Day 6. Thorong Pedi - Yak Khraka
This day we retreated as a precaution to feel several symptoms of "Altitude sickness." When descending the 500 meters that exists between a population and another one, the symptoms disappeared and the following day we continued the march with normality.
Day 7. Yak Kharka - Thorong Pedi
Day 8. Thorong I asked - Thorong La - Muktinath
Day 9. Muktinath - Jomsom
Day 10. Jomsom - Tatopani (MTB)
If it were done walking this stretch would be done in two days. "Jomsom - Kalopani" and "Kalopani - Tatopani"
Day 11. Tatopani - Gorepani
Day 12. Gorepani - Poon Hill - Bhirentani
COMPLETE ROUTE with all Waypoints
COMPLETE ROUTE with the most important Waypoints
Waypoints
Provisioning
Waypoint
11,289 ft
Mungje
Summit
24,672 ft
Annapurna IV (7.525 m)
Summit
25,935 ft
Annapurna II (7.937 m)
Summit
24,406 ft
Annapurna III (7.555 m)
Lake
15,794 ft
Tilicho Lake (4.919 m)
Religious site
12,621 ft
Templo
Summit
24,259 ft
Gangapurna (7.455 m)
Religious site
13,248 ft
Templo Milarepas (4.050 metros)
Lake
11,496 ft
Gangapurna Lake
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