18 Oct 2006, we stayed at Pangka (4548m) for overnight. This wasn’t in our plan. We would like to go up to Gokyo today. However, the change of weather had made us stopped and stayed at the Fanga View Point Hotel which runs by a young and pretty Sherpa lady. 
The day started with climb up a steep hill. Dole looks very beautiful from the hilltop. The trail is quite flat after the steep hill. Moving towards above 4000m, the scenery was changing once again. We had left the forest behind and came across the place with large patch of white cotton grass
(photo on right). I enjoyed today’s journey very much. I am seeing the white cotton flying into the wind and admiring the beautiful valley scenery. Stones houses, walled fields, snow capped mountains made up a beautiful picture. It was like scenes in the fairy tales.
We reached Luza at 10.20pm. Then, we climbed up the hill beyond Luza and reached Machhermo around 11.00am. I ordered Ra Ra noodle and hot lemon for lunch. Later, the 3 Japanese women were also arrived. We had funny chat with them this morning. They could speak very little English and we knew very little Japanese words. So, we speak English and they speak Japanese. We don’t understand each other and most of the time can only guess the meaning via the gesture. But they were friendly persons and I think the incident yesterday night was only the misunderstanding.
After lunch, we started to climb uphill. Wind blew strongly. I heard Kok Ming shouted:” Look! It’s snowing!”. Snow flurries started. Our guide suggested us to stop at the next village due to sudden change of the weather. That’s how we ended up in Pangka.
Along the way, we kept on asking for Kok Yuen news. As of now, only Kok Yuen was not yet back to the team. At Machhermo, someone said that Kok Yuen stayed there for 2 days and went up to Gokyo yesterday. If this is true, then most probably he will descend from Gokyo today and we might meet him when we trek up. However, we did not see him. His whereabouts was unknown.......
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