Oct 7, 2019 Nuwakoth to Kathmandu  20km, 3,165 to date, 50M up, 35,020M climbing.

Successful!  Arrived Kathmandu, all happy, very happy in fact.  Hot, sticky, very sweaty, about 10lbs lighter than when I started, bike needs tons of work, but thrilled to have completed the ride. And got the T-shirt!

We rode 3,165 km, climbing over 35,000 metres.  Yes, that means we averaged more than 1,000 metres of climbing per cycling day, 2,438 metres up in one day (into Shimla) was the biggest.  The highest pass was Tanglang la at 5,360m (17,580ft).  It has been an extremely challenging ride, I am very pleased I managed all of the ride except for the couple days I was sick, EFI would have been nice icing on the cake, but I knew before I came that the chances of getting through India without having some digestive challenges was unlikely.

This has been an amazing adventure.  My highest complements to Tda for creating and running this adventure.  Talking to Depi (the local that was instrumental in creating the ride) he tells me the window to do the ride was very small, 4 weeks earlier there was 10’ of snow on the high passes, a couple weeks later we would have experienced serious monsoons.  Even with the perfect timing, we were extremely lucky with the weather - often high cloud that kept the temperatures from getting too hot, only a modest amount of rain and only a bit of hail.  Only two partial days of strong winds against. One couldn't ask for better.

We took the “arrival” pictures at the famous Monkey Temple (see below), then did a bit of a tour around the city being led by some local cyclists.  

I get to be lazy today, then start the long journey home tomorrow.

…Ron

Some last pics:

Everyone in their grape shirts

The Monkey Temple in Kathmandu - the ride is complete.

The "end of ride" pose.

At Durbar square

At Patan town square

End of ride!