Saturday 30 July 2016

Day 75 to Hot Springs Camp, Tajikistan, 85km, 6397 to date.  1050m up, 3550m end


Today we cycled over the last two high altitude passes of the full ride, one at 4,175m, (13,698ft.), then the 2nd at 4,280m (14,043ft).  We have continuously been over 10,000ft for more than a week now, today the riding was really hard, I feel like I am totally out of gas.  I am not alone, our lunch today was just before the 2nd pass, arriving at lunch, one of the riders collapsed from exhaustion trying to get off his bike.

Some pics:

Top of last climb over 14,000ft:

This is the Pamir Highway "logo":






1 comment:

  1. Landscape looks stark. Glad you're 'downhill' from here on. Oxygen increase ahead.

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