The Nakee-la and Lachalunga-la passes
Once over the Rohtang, the wet forested pass at 4000m and Baralacha-la just under 5000m, the road climbs out of the Sarcchu plains up the double pass of the Nakee-la (4950m) and the Lachalung-la (5060m).
Archive for October, 2011
The team
Before I take you over the next pass, I will introduce you to this years team – both cyclists and support crew !
A campsite with a view
Campsites with astounding views are aren’t hard to come by in the Himalayas. The landscape is simply so overwhelming that almost every spot you choose to bed down for the night will offer views of crumpled mountain masses sprinkled with snow and high altitude flowers. Here are some of my favourite spots along the Manali [...]
The Passes – Rohtang (Rotties)
This is the third time I have been privileged enough to have cycled the legendary Manali-Leh highway, a roughly 600km most unsurfaced road which connects the foothills to the great crumpled mass of mountains called the himalayas. Each time I am, as amazed and in awe as the last. Instead of documenting this trip in [...]
Dehli’s Belly
A trip to the himalayas isn’t complete without a trip to Delhi, in fact its pretty difficult to avoid one of India’s delirious chaotic cities in the ‘getting there’. Spending time in Delhi’s belly is almost essential to truely appreciate the himalayan spectacle in every sense. The chaos, hectic humidity and noise pressure of 1.2 [...]
