Climbing Mentok Kangri (6262 m) and Trekking Rumtse to Tso Moriri - Ladakh, India
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- As part of our trip to Ladakh, India Clay and I head out on a 10 Day trek from Rumste to Tso Moriri, with a grand finale of a climb up Mentok Kangri at 6262 m. I finished my climb at the place where our guide said was the top (and according to our research, the place where most people are brought), and Clay went up to Mentok I at 6262 m.
This time, we brought along a whole entourage including a mountaineering guide, a cook, a poney man, and five ponies. We even had a toilet tent! Wild East Adventures organized our trip, and we'd definitely recommend them. Their website isn't working, but that doesn't matter because we highly recommend planning a trip like this once you get to Ladakh. It will take them a few days to get things organized, but you can shop around and get a feel for who is honest.
The trek crossed the Chanthang Plateau, part of the Tibetan Plateau. The Changpa people are a seminomadic Tibetan people. They herd sheep, pashmina goats (used to make the famous pashmina shawls), yaks, donkeys, and ponies.
The most common wildlife (by far) that we spotted was the kiang, or wild ass. One of the ponies on our team was half kiang.
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Great video, ooks like an amazing trek! Thanks for featuring my channel, I really appreciate it. Keep up the great videos!
No prob. You definitely deserve more subs.
Wow, you guys are amazing!!! Stick and rock toilets, Yak dung, goat holes.......life doesn't get much better than that :) I've only been above the tree line once, and I remember how slow we had to go. Great video. I really enjoyed it.
What an amazing trip! I couldn't even imagine climbing up to 6200 ft. The tallest I've climbed so far is only about 2500ft. I didn't even realize how harsh the climate was til this video. Congratulations on completing your hike. Some beautiful views for sure. -ATB Adam 🐢
I didn't realize how harsh the climate was until I got up there, lol.
More amazing is it's actually 6,200 meters or a little more than 20,000 feet. I thought my climb last year was high at 13,200 feet!
Wow. What a smashing video. Looks like a fantastic hike, definitely one to remember. Well done. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks guys! Hey, I sent you an e-mail a day or two ago. Did you get it?
The Last Grownup in the Woods hmm. Let me check. I have about five emails lol.
Man those were some beautiful views. Excellent video.
Very nice your trip :) Thanks for going ware a cant go:) Thank you very much....Theo,
Who knows, maybe you'll make it there one day, or at least somewhere as strange and foreign.
Congratulations 🎉 all team members , guide , Porter's HAP & Support staff.
Thank you :)
What an incredible looking trip! Thank you for taking the time to film this.
Wow ! Most of us only dream of an adventure like this. 😆
You have some stunning footage! Love the little horse running around near the 5th night footage or so! That would be quite the hike. I have never done anything remotely like that, or even close to that elevation! I hear that really kills the energy hiking at that height! Hope that nose is feeling better! You should be proud to complete such a trek!
Ya, the altitude was pretty brutal. I spent a lot of time fantasizing about sea level. Thanks for watching!
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Thanks, I'll go check out your channel.
Thank you for letting me join you on your expedition, Carley
Wow, simply amazing! Cheers, Marc
Congrats on accomplishing a great trek, and thanks for sharing your adventure.
Amazing ! Thanks for exploring such remotes in my country!its beautiful.May i ask which month was it ??
Late July.
I said before thank you for taking me along places I will never be able to go or get to
Wow!! What an adventure and that climb up the mountain was amazing! 👍👍
Absolutely amazing trek! I want to go to that part of the world some day. So remote...peaceful...natural...brutally real. 20K!
Thanks! brutally real is a pretty good term for it. It was great :D
Beautiful video! Can you please share your trekking cost? How much was charged for your entire trip?
It's hard to understand my notes, but it looks like R 140 000 for the both of us. It cost quite a bit because we needed a mountaineering guide for all 10 days even though we only climbed for only one.
I’m glad you were able to splurge on the support team (and toilet tent) after Carrying heavier packs earlier in the trip. Thanks for sharing this!
It looks like you were using a clip on mic. What type of microphone do you use?
When you are not using the sound zoom H 1
I wasn't using anything for this, actually. I lugged my H1 around, but never wanted to get it out. Doing anything was too exhausting. I should have, though. The wind was so bad that very little outdoor footage had usable audio. Perhaps you are seeing my necklace or some zipper or drawstring contraption? I do have a lavier mic (I have no idea what brand), but rarely use it. I found that if I'm moving, I end up with a lot of feedback. I usually use a gorilla pod to attach the H1 to my tripod or selfie stick. I don't have any audio input on my camera, so I sync up the sound separately. I think I would do that now even if I did have audio input so I have backup when something fails.
Amazing adventure. and good call on sitting that one out. Probably some altitude sickness, and that could have gotten worse. But definitely looks like an amazing trip with an amazing climb. Worth having the people bring you up?
You mean our entourage? We needed to have the guide. It was too technical for me, and neither of us would have found the route in the dark. Guides don't usually work without a cook, and we couldn't have gotten a cook without a pony man because they need a lot of gear.
Yeah, that was the the word I was looking for (got interrupted a few times while watching and forgot what you called them). Plus it's definitely nice to have a camp cook, having food especially when you get back (and tea, which reminds me I need to take care of find a tea to send). Were they expensive to hire?
It was. I was going to say (I was also getting interrupted), that we did another 6000 m peak after without a guide, and I think I enjoyed it a lot more. There was a lot bigger sense of accomplishment without a guide.
I need to get back in shape and try and do a (small) mountain at some point. Though other times I like my "slow" lumbering pace that drives some of my friends crazy. I get to see more (well not places... things)
Highest settlement village is Komic village in Himachal Pradesh .....Korzok is highest settlement in Ladakh.
Thanks for the info. The tourist info wasn't always too accurate when it came to claims of highest places.
awesome trip,a wild ass and a toilet 😄😄
amazing views,you going to enjoy that trip for the rest of your life
Toilet rating of 1.5 LOL Beautiful animals and landscape. I've never heard of keeping baby goats hole but you learn something new every day. Awesome trip thank you for sharing.
Ya, it was definitely a strange thing, but I suppose the ground would be the warmest place outside of the actual house.
You guys have serious stamina
Thank you :)
Hi, great video! Do you have any GPS track of Rumtse to karzok ?
I keep forgetting to look. I might have it on Google Earth, but I am rarely on my computer these days.
Excellent 👌
Talk about an amazing, enduring, remote, high-altitude trek all captured so beautifully. What an adventure to see Mentok 1 and 2 and congratulations to Clay for making up Mentok 1. That sunrise you shared that morning was just breath-taking. Even though the altitude was exhausting, the whole region was just so unspoiled and beautiful. Who wouldn't love to experience this kind of adventure at least once in their lives?
We definitely are lucky to be able to get a chance to do stuff like this.
We have to back from 19743 Feet ( GPS reading ) due to bad weather
That's too bad. We were lucky to have gotten such a good day.
What an amazing adventure! Thank you for sharing it with us.
how much The guide cost Of Base camp - Mantok kangri ?
Do you mean if you were to start at Tso Moriri? I don't know what the cost would be. If it was just two people, maybe 26,000 rupees for a guide, ponies, and cook? If you found a group that was going, you'd pay a lot less. Maybe look at what some of the tour companies are offering online to get a good idea, then when you get to Leh, you should be able to find the trip for less. Not many guides will want to go without ponies or a cook, but you might be able to find someone. That would save a lot of money.
What a hike and final climb! Pretty amazing. except the toilet :) I had no idea about those holes - you said it was for baby goats to keep them warm? Sorry for a sunburn (I am always like a red pig so I can imagine :) Guys, how the hell did you get the guitar there ??? :) OK, you don't have to answer, maybe I will figure it our from your older videos. Anyway, congrats to Clay to stand on Mentok I and to you as well to make it almost there. Well, also Mentok, who cares about the numbers right ? :) I am kidding, I know you probably wanted to be there with him. Guys I enjoyed your adventure so much and I am glad you make these short films for us. Will watch more. thanks!!!!
Clay bought a guitar from some guy on the street. It was actually a pretty good one. Then he sold it to our hotel manager and used the money to buy a junky little one. Then he gave our pony man his best puppy dog eyes to let him put it on a pony. He ended up managing to get it onto out various planes home with no case. It's now hanging on the wall as a fun souvenir. The guitar ended up making us a lot of friends, actually. Clay once brought a dulcimer on a backpacking trip. It's hard to separate him from his instruments. I don't really feel too bad about not going all the way. Peak bagging is Clay's thing. I just like being in the mountains.
Understand, it was pretty cool to enjoy adventure with you guys and get to know you better. thanks for it and thanks for your answer, I appreciate it! have fun on the next trip. I will definitely follow your steps :)
Congrats on this great accomplishment and thanks for sharing this vlog! Can u share what month did u guys do Mentok kangri and also what was the cost for u two??
We went in early Late January. I can't find the exact numbers. My notes in my journal are a mess, but it was around r100,000. It would have been quite a bit cheaper if we had found someone else wanting to do the same trek with us, or if we had chosen to do just the climb from Tso Moriri.
Nerding for Nature - The Last Grownup in the Woods thanks a lot :))) any idea how much the climb from tso moriri would cost and the number of days to trek up and back?
No sorry, I don't think we got quotes on that. The base camp is only a few hours from Tso Moriri so you could do it in 2 days, but you'd need time to acclimatize first. Maybe another Stok Kangri ascent? It's about a day's drive each way from Leh too. My guess would be about a third the price for two people. Less if you have a bigger group. Chances are you can get a deal in Leh by joining up with another group. You've been to Ladakh so you probably know the drill. One piece of advice: don't let them try to tell you that that little subpeak is Stok Kangri II. A few other videos and blogs we read had their guides take them there and call it Stok Kangri II or III when it clearly is not a peak. I suspect it has something to do with permits. Also, I would say it was less exhausting than Stok Kangri. It was more technical, but shorter. I also had a cold when I did Stok Kangri though.
Well done to the both of you, a brilliant and beautiful adventure. Never stop exploring. ⛺️🏕🏔
Thanks Mike!
Another far out hike Carley. What an awesome vista th-cam.com/video/af7Sj7j9BNA/w-d-xo.html As you say it was even more fascinating walking through the lake - well not exactly through it but you get my drift. I guess that was meditation in itself in the tent - looked fun to me and you needed the rest. Great to mingle with the natives. Brilliant Carley - now that was a vista th-cam.com/video/af7Sj7j9BNA/w-d-xo.html ...all the best. Mark