The Pinnacles – the first big highlight of this trip.

The hike to get there is probably the steepest hike, I ever did. The pure distance from camp 5 is just 2.4km, however – as one needs to climb from about 50m above sea level to 1175m – this is more than a simple walk in the park (while technically – this being a National Park – iit remains a walk in the park).

We left Camp 5 around 07:00 … with Richard and myself making ground pretty quickly; we made it to the top – means the Pinnacles view point 1125m higher than the start point – already around 09:00.

After a 45 minute break at the viewpoint, we started to climb down again. On the way down, we met the others on their way up.

We finally made it back to camp by 12:00 … in time for a relaxing afternoon in and around the river. The others made it back to camp around 16:00 … and also ended up in the river to cool down.