The land was put up for sale last August by its American owner, prompting calls for the Government to step in and ensure the stunning landscape remains untouched.
It is one of the most significant landholdings to ever come on the market in Kerry but five months after it was put up for sale there is still no buyer for the world-famous Conor Pass.
Scoffing down boiled potatoes and soup at half eleven in the morning under a blazing Nepalese sun is not the archetypal holiday moment. But as Kerry based explorer Pat Falvey kept reminding us, our journey was an adventure not a package holiday.