Three Passes Trek Day 20

Three Passes Trek Day 20 - Nov 17 - Gokyo to Gokyo Ri (return). Today we dragged ourselves out of bed at 6am and got going by 6:30 to climb Gokyo Ri, a nearby peak (5360metres) right next to the village. Great views of Gokyo lake, including the one off the cover of the Lonely Planet trekking in Nepal guide book,and surrounding mountains- photographer's dream. It took us 1 hr 30 min up (extremely steep slope all the way) and about 1 hr 10 min down. I have been sitting in a cafe for about an hour chatting with some Israelis that we met in Dzongla and with a Slovenian, couple, one of whom was a novelist, and apparently well known in Slovenia (but not yet translated into English). So after all of this chatting and drinking coffee I feel like I've had a rest day even though we were out for nearly 4 hours this morning, must be the novelty of the cafe (which is the only other one in Gokyo besides the one at our hotel). Still freezing cold here, this morning we had to cross iced over streams on the path to Gokyo Ri.