“Not Nak, we’ll do just Yak.” - gallery Yak Peak

Yaks are the mammals that live at the highest altitudes in the world. They can climb up as high as 6100 m, can weigh up to 550 kg and can carry up to 100 kg of load. The Sherpas of Nepal generally call the males of the species for “Yak” and the females “Nak”.  We didn’t see any real yak yet in our life, but we did see and summit Yak Peak in British Columbia yesterday together with amstaff Magnum. On our way back we decided not to climb Nak Peak because the view was exactly the same as from Yak Peak. In Tibetan mythology, yaks are represented as the messengers of the gods living in high places, so I tried to listen to the message from Yak Peak without any luck. The view is great. I would love to go back and try to rock - climb it one day because of Yak’s stunning and solid granite surface.

ps: we had the cherry war on the summit, and I won:

Several days ago Goran started to talk about a place he wanted to take me to visit but he refused to tell me where and what it was about. Until yesterday when he finally told me that we where going to Cultus Lake Provincial Park in Chilliwack, and even better to Cultus Waterpark. I know that I am 31 years old woman, but I just adore water slides. We tried first Colossal Canyon and Radical Rapids before we went over to Valley of Fear, Freefall and Speedslide. Goran went immediately to try both Freefall and Valley of Fear, but it took some time before I was ready for my Freefall and Valley of Fear which surprised me how scared  I was by verticality of the Freefall slide. But yes at the end - I did try Freefall, and no - I don’t have the videoproof. Here is Goran’s Freefall videoproof:

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This is a picture of Lillian Alling, the Russian woman who hiked all the way from New York to Alaska via Canada and to her homeland in 1927. Lillan Alling was “The Woman Who Walked to Russia” from British Columbia according to the legend and to Australian writer and historian Cassandra Pybus who wrote  a book with same title, only that the woman of the title in her book was nowhere to be found.  Namely, I bought this book because I wanted to find out more about Lillan Alling and her travel back in 1927, but instead of a travel book and an adventure story I got a relationship story between writer Cassandra and her Australian friend Gerry. The title of the book is misleading, but I still will recommend the first 50 pages of it. After that you can stop ’cause ten minutes searching on the Internet will give you more information about Lillian Alling. I really don’t get it why Cassandra titled this book ‘The woman who walked to Russia’ when she could title it ‘Cassandra Pybus drove to Alaska’. Really disappointing!