23/12/2025
The descent from the riverside camp to the northwestern edge of Phoksumdo Lake bears of the steepness of the previous day. Lunch is likely to be in a small birch grove where the trail meets the lake for the first time. It is here that Matthiessen and Schaller camped after negotiating the formerly treacherous trail around the western side of the lake height above the lake change, the intense, remarkable blue of the water emerges and shifts in ways that cannot be appreciated from the lake’s edge. It is blue like no other, the lake’s edge and follows a reasonably level course into the town of Ringmo. This trail has only recently been upgraded from the precarious route Matthiessen and Snellgrovp describe in their writings. This is where the Yak fell off the trail in the 1999 movie Himalaya.
Home to snow leopard, blue sheep, lammergeier, and one of the few enclaves of unoppressed traditional Tibetan culture, this is authentic, rugged, unspoiled, and unforgettable arguably the best trek in all of Nepal. Congratulations 🎊 RD Tamang and Sok Leng Chan from Cambodia 🇰🇭 for successfully Done!
https://traveltimes.com.np/trip/upper-dolpo-camping-trek/
23rd December 2025
Restday Phoksumdo Lake (3 600 m)
