Mustang Wild *exploratory
Upper Mustang trek, and some 6000 meter peak exploration!
"We are going dreamily into a lunar landscape. ...
the rocks take on unreal colors and shapes, and glitter with strange lights like pallid images in a dream.
Now we leave the Kali Gandaki valley and climb the flanks of the mountains, following a difficult
and winding path; in places where the earth and rock do not provide a foothold, little bridges have been suspended over the void."
- G. Tucci (1969), Journey to Mustang
And while the trails might be better now, Upper Mustang is still a stark kaleidoscope of colours and textures, formations and sculpted gorges; glorious trekking, and often rated the most scenic trek in Nepal. It is also flanked by a series of peaks and we set out to further explore these. In 2010 we climbed Saribung 6328m en route to Nar-Phu, in 2011 we pioneered some very high passes over to Dolpo and climbed a few 6000m peaks near Arniko Chuli en route, and this time we run an expedition that focuses on Upper Mustang on a different area an ascent a 6000m peak and perhaps subsidiary peaks. We are the first team to try these as "trekking peaks", hence plenty of exploration time, and I am sure these peaks will make a fantastic substitute for Mera Peak or Island Peak with straightforward climbing.
It will be a trip of superlatives!
