After Everest...

This was a horrendously windy day going up the first of the doube passes. We camped between them. Holy f$%# it was windy. It was meant to be a pretty easy climb of around 400m in height, but unfortunately, it wasn't.

Jen decided to keep up with a group of jeep-supported riders with no pannier bags: you go girl! They were thoroughly impressed.







This is at our campsite. Here's our friend Chandra cleaning Jen's bike. He was a guide for another guy we met called Karsten, who was also doing a jeep-assisted ride and apparently having much more fun, but we begged to differ. Chandra was very generous with his time and bike maintenance skills. We bought him several beers in Kathmandu!






The next day we started our assault on the second of the double passes, the Yarle Shung La. As you can see, it was cloudy. Jen decided to take on the No-Panniers crew and won. Awesome.

The descent was fun until it started raining, and raining, and raining. The next day it kept on raining, and raining, and raining, and we took that enforced rest day that we mentioned earlier in the blog. There were supposed to be great views of Everest and Cho Oyu from the top of this pass. Not on this day.