Wake up at 6 am.... the famous
grueling day 2 of the trail begins. Immediately, we began hiking upwards.... alternating between stairs and slopes... but pretty much continually hiking up. This is what the guides call `Inca Flat`which means hills and more hills. It is frigging HOT out today, which
doesn`t help the exhaustion. We got to the bottom of the famous big pass called `Dead Woman`s Pass`, so named because the locals think that the outline of the
mountain here looks like a woman lying dead at the top (see pic of the path up to the top... yikes). The heat, combined with the
altitude and the steep angle of the hill, made the trek up VERY slow and difficult. I hiked up with Lucy and Alex (from the UK). We walked for about a minute, and then stopped for a break because we
couldn`t breathe, and then repeated that all the way up! We did the pass in 63
mins, which is apparently a very decent time, but I swear to you I thought I was going to have a heart attack going up.... your heart beats so fast to try and get oxygen that you literally think it is going to explode out of your chest! I have
posted a video of us a the top... hopefully it works! When we got to our campsite that day, everyone basically passed out in their tents for a nap. I took me at least a few hours to get my heart and lungs back to normal. In total today, we climbed up 4000 feet. It is my personal belief that the porters that run up this hill are aliens.
Wake up at 6 am.... the famous grueling day 2 of the trail begins. Immediately, we began hiking upwards.... alternating between stairs and slopes... but pretty much continually hiking up. This is what the guides call `Inca Flat`which means hills and more hills. It is frigging HOT out today, which doesn`t help the exhaustion. We got to the bottom of the famous big pass called `Dead Woman`s Pass`, so named because the locals think that the outline of the mountain here looks like a woman lying dead at the top (see pic of the path up to the top... yikes). The heat, combined with the altitude and the steep angle of the hill, made the trek up VERY slow and difficult. I hiked up with Lucy and Alex (from the UK). We walked for about a minute, and then stopped for a break because we couldn`t breathe, and then repeated that all the way up! We did the pass in 63 mins, which is apparently a very decent time, but I swear to you I thought I was going to have a heart attack going up.... your heart beats so fast to try and get oxygen that you literally think it is going to explode out of your chest! I have 
posted a video of us a the top... hopefully it works! When we got to our campsite that day, everyone basically passed out in their tents for a nap. I took me at least a few hours to get my heart and lungs back to normal. In total today, we climbed up 4000 feet. It is my personal belief that the porters that run up this hill are aliens.
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