Hunku Camp 4850 m - Panch Pokari 5385 m
day 16 : 2 november 2003
  
  up the valley  
  making up for lost time, this day's trek was a long climb through the upper reaches of the Hunku Valley to the Panch Pokari sanctuary  
  
  
   
  snow trails  
  like a never ending highway, we faithfully followed the snow trail  
  
  
   
  dudh pokari ahead  
  after more than one hour of trekking then we neared our intended campsite for the previous day... Dudh Pokari  
  
  
   
  rehydration  
  Dalbhadur drinking out of his metal canteen at Dudh Pokari  
  
  
   
  wide flats  
  beyond Dudh Pokari is the wide grassland marshy flats that leads up to the Hunku Glacier  
  
  
   
  snow trekking  
  trekking across the flats to get to the western lateral moraine of the Hunku Glacier  
  
  
   
  awaiting  
  Assim waits for the rest of the team to catch up  
  
  
   
  contrast  
  Pasang treks on with our lunch point just ahead  
  
  
   
  stevie wonder  
  Kapure our master expedition cook looking very much like Mr Wonder  
  
  
   
  lone trekker  
  mountains framed by the low clouds, a lone trekker makes his way across the snow trail  
  
  
   
  pushing on  
  pushing on after lunch, it was still a long way to our destination for the day  
  
  
   
  hunku peak  
  standing tall at 6319 m, Hunku peak dominates the landscape as we ascended the upper reaches of the Hunku Valley  
  
  
   
  panch pokari  
  after a long exhaustive climb along the western lateral moraine of the Hongku glacier, the reward is the secluded hidden lake of Panch Pokari  
  
  
   
  moonstone  
  the warm evening light on a near monolith with the moon shining bright above  
  

  
 

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