Hiking & Trekking

1. ལམ་འདི་གར་འགྲོ་ཡིན།

   Lam di gar dro yin?

   Where does this trail lead?

   Usage

   Asking where a trail leads

   Grammar Note

   "gar" = directional question word "where to"

2. ལམ་འདིའི་རིང་ཚད་ག་ཚོད་ཡིན།

   Lam di yi ringtsa katso yin?

   How long is the trail?

   Usage

   Asking about trail length/distance

   Grammar Note

   "ringtsa" = "length measure"

3. ལམ་འདི་གསར་སློབ་པ་ལ་འཚམས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་དམ།

   Lam di sarlobpa la tsamkyi yo dam?

   Is this trail suitable for beginners?

   Usage

   Checking if the trail is beginner-friendly

   Grammar Note

   "-la tsam" = "suited to ~"

4. རི་རྒྱུགས་ཀྱི་ལག་ཆ་གང་དུ་བླས་འཐུ་ཐུབ།

   Rigyuk gi lakcha gang du le tu thub?

   Where can I rent hiking gear?

   Usage

   Finding where to rent hiking equipment

   Grammar Note

   "rigyuk" lit. "mountain running" = hiking

5. ལམ་གྱི་ས་ཁྲ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Lam gyi satra yo dam?

   Is there a trail map available?

   Usage

   Asking for a trail map

   Grammar Note

   "satra" = "map". "Lam gyi satra" = "map of the path (trail map)"

6. རྩེ་མོའི་མཐོ་ཚད་ག་ཚོད་ཡིན།

   Tsemo yi thotsa katso yin?

   How high is the summit?

   Usage

   Asking about the elevation of the summit

   Grammar Note

   "tsemo" = "peak/summit"

7. ལམ་འདི་ད་རིང་ཕྱེ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Lam di dering che yo dam?

   Is the trail open today?

   Usage

   Checking if the trail is open today

   Grammar Note

   "che yo" = "is in an opened state"

8. ང་ཐང་ཆད་བྱུང་། ཡར་ཙམ་ངལ་གསོ་བྱེད་དགོས།

   Nga thang cha jung. Yar tsam ngal so che go.

   I'm tired. I need to rest for a moment.

   Usage

   Saying you are tired and need a rest break

   Grammar Note

   "thang cha jung" = "energy exhausted" perfective

9. མཐོ་ཚད་འཕར་ཚད་ག་ཚོད་ཡིན།

   Thotsa partsa katso yin?

   What is the elevation gain?

   Usage

   Asking about elevation gain for difficulty assessment

   Grammar Note

   "par" = "rise/increase"

10. ས་གནས་ཀྱི་འདྲིན་ལེན་མི་ཞིག་གླ་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Sane kyi drinlen mi zhik la thub bam?

    Can I hire a local guide?

    Usage

    Looking for a local hiking guide

    Grammar Note

    "drinlen" = "guiding/escorting"

11. ངའི་ལྡིང་མ་ལ་རྨས་སོར་བྱུང་། རོགས་གནང་།

    Ngai lingma la messor jung. Rok nang.

    I've injured my ankle. I need help.

    Usage

    Alerting others to an ankle injury and requesting help

    Grammar Note

    "rok nang" = "please give help" polite request

12. འདི་ [གནས་ཡུལ་] ལ་འགྲོ་བའི་ལམ་འདི་རེད་དམ།

    Di [ne yul] la drowe lam di re dam?

    Is this the right path to [destination]?

    Usage

    Confirming you are on the right path

    Grammar Note

    "-re dam" = confirmation question "is it ~?"

13. ས་ཁུལ་འདིར་གཅན་གཟན་ཉེན་ཁ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Sakhul dir chengzen nyenkha yo dam?

    Are there dangerous animals in this area?

    Usage

    Checking for dangerous wildlife in the area

    Grammar Note

    "chengzen" = predator/dangerous animal

14. ལམ་གྱི་གནམ་གཤིས་ག་འདྲ་ཡོད།

    Lam gyi namshi kadra yo?

    What are the weather conditions on the trail?

    Usage

    Checking weather conditions before hiking

    Grammar Note

    "namshi" = "nature of the sky" = weather

15. ང་ལམ་ཤོར་སོང་། ལམ་གྱི་འཛུལ་སྒོ་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

    Nga lam shor song. Lam gyi dzul go gang du yo?

    I'm lost. Which way is the trailhead?

    Usage

    Emergency phrase when lost on a trail

    Grammar Note

    "shor song" = "lost (perfective)"

16. རྩེ་མོར་གང་ཙམ་ལག་ན་ཆུག་གཡུག་ཐུབ།

    Tsemor gang tsam lak na chuk gyuk thub?

    How much further to the summit?

    Usage

    Asking how far remains to the summit

    Grammar Note

    "-r ... thub" = "can reach ~?"

17. རི་ཁང་ཞིག་ཡོད་དམ།

    Ri khang zhik yo dam?

    Is there a mountain hut or shelter?

    Usage

    Asking if there is a mountain hut or shelter

    Grammar Note

    "ri khang" = "mountain house"

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