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2014Crossing the Ngozumba Glacier
Today we had a very short hike of 3 hours to recover a bit from last day’s strain and to prepare for another pass which we will do tomorrow.
After taking a look at a nice view of a snow covered mountain we headed to the glacier.
The glacier did not look like you would probably expect. No huge blue surface but a flow of rocks, sand and dust. Just on a few spots you can see the ice. But also no bright blue. I tweaked my photos a little bit to point out where these spots are. The Ngozumba glacier is 32 km long (22 mi) and thus is the largest glacier of the Himalayas.
It needs a good deal of going up and down over rocks and stones to cross that glacier. It was also kind of odd to know that you are walking on a moving surface (Although the speed is pretty slow)
At the end a yellow flag indicated that we arrived at Chola Pass Resort.