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April 04, 2005
Hangover
Altitude hangover to be precise. Do you like tea? I don't. You better like tea, when you go to Tibet. Drink gallons of tea. You can't do very much about the headaches. This was one of the worst nights in my life. I did have experience with this kind of altitude before but shooting up to 4000 metres in less then five hours is not healthy. It was bloody freezing during the night. My guess was minus fifteen (Celsius). Or five (Fahrenheit). And when we woke up snow had fallen. Not enough to shut down the highway though. It needs a lot more snow then that. The hotel where we spent the night was a stone building with ten rooms or so. No toilet, no hot water, no shower, no heating, no nothing. You sleep in your own sleeping bag. And you better make sure it's a good sleeping bag. This is the main road of Nyalam. The High Street so to say. Time to move on is what I thought.