How Not To Traverse a Glacier
The next day we were due to leave for Passu, a 3 hour drive away. It took us 8 hours. The place was full of JCB s, excavating vast chunks out of the mountains to widen the road. The ‘culvert construction’ diversions continued, mostly into mud. We only fell in once, when we were going through a river and hit an underwater boulder. There was no disaster though, I jumped off and pushed the bike back up, and we carried on. We stopped for watermelon and mango juice at a roadside shack, by a bubbling brook that the drinks were kept cold in. The route was stunning. Every time you turned a corner it got more incredible, with massive mountain vistas. There were huge chunks of snow and ice. There was an enormous glacier in the distance. The water rushing everywhere meant there were fruit orchards and grassy meadows. The restaurant was perched high on a rock in ...