After Andy and Abby were airborne, we were on the trail. It was sunny and the air warmed quickly. At almost 14,000′ we were still above the treeline but the low growing plants were back and the landscape felt more alive, unlike the arctic, rocky, glacier we had come from the day before.

We walked near the river for most of the day doing our ‘Nepali flat’ thing…going up and down and winding up at about the same altitude at the end of the day as when we started.