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| Pasang fruti |
From Brook’s Journal, Day 5: Today we walked from Kinja to Goyam. It was a long hard day and we were really tired when we got to Goyam. It was quite cold when we got to the place where we are staying and I used my down jacket for the first time. It is the highest we have stayed yet, at 3220 m (10,562 ft.). This is not much of a town, just a village with maybe three families, two of which offer lodging. Ours is a rickety wooden building. The rooms are really drafty from having big cracks in the walls and around the windows. We stuffed clothes around the edges of our window to reduce the draft. The cooking and eating was in a separate hut. We enjoyed watching the mother make our dinner. We had dindo for the first time, with a yummy wild mushroom sauce. Dindo is wheat flour stirred with boiling water to form a sticky lump of partially cooked dough. The apple pie was nowhere near as good as in Bhandar. The little boy that lives here is named Pasang fruti. We refer to him as Passion Fruity!
Day 6: Today we went up over Lamjura pass and down to Junbesi. Getting over the pass wasn’t that hard because we had done most of the climbing yesterday. At the place where we ate lunch the man that owned the place said he was in a lot of back pain from having fallen about ten meters (over 30 feet!) two or three days ago. We were surprised to learn that he hadn’t yet gone to see a doctor. He asked us if we could help. We gave him Ibuprofen and told him he should really go to the doctor as soon as possible. Now we’re in Junbesi at a lodge that’s really nice and comfortable. It even has a greenhouse!
- Brook
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| Near Lamjura pass |
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