There are places in our world where the heights range above 12000 feet to even 22000 feet above sea level. If you intend camping in any of such place you need to be an expert in camping and survival at these kind of altitude. Below -50 C, avalanches, snow storms, HAPE (high altitude pulpitudinal adima) and frost bite are most common threats known in these areas. Camping at High Altitude provide a kind of challenge that only the strongest in mental and physical endurance can undertake. People who go for mountaineering to Mount Everest, K-2 or nagaparbat are the people who are expert in this form of camping.
High altitude camping involves special kind of equipment which include specialized shoes, clothing, stoves, sunburn creams, ultraviolet glasses, tinned food, ice axe, crampons and high altitude camps/tents. The weather is highly unpredictable in such places. Some times at heights above 15000 feet you are unable to see sun light for more than 30 days. One of the most difficult things is to set a wash room and off coarse how to utilize it in strong winds and snowstorm blowing all the times. At such high temperature you need to be really well equipped, when you wash your face, ice flanges may appear not somewhere else but on your own face. Small stars if the weather allows you to see would give light like a torch with a power full beam. Moon nights on a clear night are a breathtaking site. All the ice glows like white pearls. It’s a stunning site you fell like lost or complete.
The locals in these areas are master of camping and know all the ways and mean in case of any eventualities, they also provide services as porters with you for small wages. It’s advisable to keep them along. Bacon is life saving in these areas so need to be kept no matter where you go. The tracks of a fox in any of the area are a confirmation that the place is safe to travel and is not having any crevasses.
If you want a place totally unpopulated or closest to nature and you can manage to take along the equipment required there is nothing more exciting then camping in high altitudes. Make sure you are prepared and have a camping lantern with you.
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