I was astonished to hear that Sherpas had cooked a birthday cake on the way up Everest for one of the climbers. How do you cook on a mountainside? How do you cook when you don't have sherpas and yaks or other animals carrying all your cooking gear?
When you are climbing a mountain and eating lunch or company overnight you may want to cook. But because you are walking uphill you want your cooking get to be as light as possible.
A second consideration is that you cannot take some kinds of larger cooking devices on airplanes when flying to foreign destination.
One solution is the compact solid fuel stove which cove with fuel. All you need is your food, your match or lighter and a small saucepan (or a cook in the pan meal if you can find one or make one with a base suitable for over a stove like this).
I have photographed it with a spoon, knife and fork to show how small it is.
Pull it out of the pack and you find a small hanged metal container which opens from the centre like a double door. The white fuels are shown.
This is what it looks like with a normal size frying pan on top.
This model of cooker is designed in two positions, one for use when in normal weather conditions and the other when there is wind. This one was bought from Amazon for a trip up a mountain in Indonesia.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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