So this is the famous Cho La pass, the 2nd of 3 I will be crossing on my way to Island Peak.
It is devastatingly high - one of the highest passes in the world at over 5500 m.
Sitting in front of it and staring up at it is quite daunting - it is a 4 mile high wall of solid rock covered in ice and snow.
What is amazing though is listening to it. Every few minutes a huge rock bounces down it's walls, sending huge plumes of snow in to the sky.
Every time is sounds like a small avalanche. This thing is alive!
I'm sure you've all seen a waterfall but seeing a 'snow'fall is just something else - hundreds of cubic metres of snow cascading down the mountain side just like a waterfall but only it's snow.
I could sit here for hours and just watch this rock!
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