Mera often trotted ahead of the climbers, waiting for them to
catch up. The temperatures didn't seem to faze her. (Photo: Don
Wargowsky)
Early on, Mera started to slide and Wargowsky was able to catch her
and save her from what could've been a dangerous fall. When the team
moved to camp two at around 21,000 feet, they were sidelined there for
four days because of bad weather. Mera stayed with Wargowsky, who shared
his tent and his food with the pup.
"I split all my meals with her 50/50 so we both lost weight," he says. He guesses the scruffy brown-and-tan stray weighed probably 45 pounds to start with but lost maybe five or 10 pounds during the trip. Wargowsky says Mera looked like a combination of a Tibetan mastiff and a Nepali sheepdog.
Wargowsky was impressed with how well Mera navigated the snow and ice and handled the cold.
"She did very very well like 98 percent of the time. There were certain slopes very early in the morning or late at night when the snow was very crusty and icy when it was very slippery and you could see her kind of struggle with it," he says. "Her paws got beat up and it was hard to see her paws bleeding a little. But everything healed up that evening and it was all superficial."
He says it was also hard to believe she didn't go snow-blind. The humans were all wearing expensive glacier goggles while she trotted along with no protection...https://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/stray-dog-climbed-highest-elevation-nepal
"I split all my meals with her 50/50 so we both lost weight," he says. He guesses the scruffy brown-and-tan stray weighed probably 45 pounds to start with but lost maybe five or 10 pounds during the trip. Wargowsky says Mera looked like a combination of a Tibetan mastiff and a Nepali sheepdog.
Wargowsky was impressed with how well Mera navigated the snow and ice and handled the cold.
"She did very very well like 98 percent of the time. There were certain slopes very early in the morning or late at night when the snow was very crusty and icy when it was very slippery and you could see her kind of struggle with it," he says. "Her paws got beat up and it was hard to see her paws bleeding a little. But everything healed up that evening and it was all superficial."
He says it was also hard to believe she didn't go snow-blind. The humans were all wearing expensive glacier goggles while she trotted along with no protection...https://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/stray-dog-climbed-highest-elevation-nepal
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