When we drove up to the base of Tsamba Garay Mountain this morning, we came across a Khazak family who may have room for us to sleep overnight. They invited us in for tea and biscuits, unfortunately they don't speak Mongolian and our guide doesn't speak Khazak. This was a classic 'Lonely Planet' guide description where we're invited for tea but we can't communicate with each other...what an awkward moment! Finally, Hogy was able to get the owner's wife to let us stay overnight. Her husband was away and she normally doesn't speak to strangers, let alone make decisions.
After some milk tea and biscuits, we headed up to the mountain for few hours of hiking...we knew we couldn't reach the peak (requires crampons and rope) but we wanted to get up to the snow line. Up and down a ridge, cross a mountain river, up again on another ridge, we came across a marker near the glacier...sadly, we were no where near the snow line. We needed to head back since it was past 4pm and we hadn't eaten lunch...oh well.
Location:Tsamba Garay, Mongolia
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