Bangladesh, just wow. The intensity of everything is simply shocking. No matter how many places you've been, you've seen nowhere like this place.
It's loud, polluted, dirty and disorganized. The traffic is absolutely nuts, with thousands of tuktuks, motorcycles and cars blaring their horns and rickshaws ringing their bells. All five senses are being tortured continuously.
I learned that in Bangladesh, you can't fight it. Embrace it, or go home. Today, I decided to embrace it, and I went touring through city traffic and countryside on a rickshaw. One of my craziest experiences, but I had the best time. Absolutely all the locals smiled, laughed and waved at me. I made tons of friends, and heck, I even made the news.
Rickshaw drivers of Bangladesh, you've earned my respect. Cycling a rickshaw is really hard work, more than I could imagine!!
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Good morning ☀
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It's been 6 eventful weeks in Nepal, and I've experienced exactly what I came here for: High-altitude trekking in remote mountains and spectacular rock climbing!
I'm perhaps less impressed with the bustling streets of Kathmandu, where everyone is an aspiring race car driver and pedestrians surely don't have the right of the way. I'm not even gonna talk about the pollution!
So what I'm doing next? I'm flying off to Dhaka, Bangladesh, the city with the world's highest population density. Hate it, love it, embrace it - we'll see! 😀
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Have you been to Bangladesh, or know anything cool to go about? Maybe a mountain to ascend? 🗻 Let me know!! 🇧🇩
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Topping out on 5740m on the southeastern slopes of Mt Makalu after a long ascent from basecamp! Going solo as always!
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It was fairly challenging going up, as I didn't follow any trail and simply went along the ridge line as an improvised route. The crux of the ascent was traversing an exposed ridge with large rocks, where I had to ditch my trekking poles and rather climb, jump and slide along the large boulders.
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Unfortunately, I wasn't rewarded with the best views from the top due to clouds moving in, but it was a great feeling looking down on all the glaciers below me.
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