Sunday January 13th, 2019. Amazingly this is Day 18. Coming down is all part of the experience, and allows a … More

Lower altitude permitted some sleep last night. It is snowing, and all views have disappeared, only the sense of the … More

5th January 2019 A gentle sense of achievement flushes the veins, as in the bright air we start to descend: … More

This eloquent title belongs to a poem in Walt Whitman´s Leaves of Grass. It begins: Darest thou now, O Soul, … More

We have to accept ups and downs, so nicely captured in the Spanish word altibajos. But it is difficult not … More

Should we embrace a teleological view of the trek, that it only has meaning based on its purpose to complete … More

Sometimes the contrast between the real and painful effort made during the trek and the imaginative mental projection of finally … More

Beginnings Exactly ten years ago, during the January school break in Nepal, when I was working in Kathmandu University High … More

Day 16 – Day 21: Tatopani to Nayapul We reached Tatopani by bus from Jomsom. This might have been the … More

Day 11: Shree Kharka to Yak Kharka All preliminaries cast aside, we must attempt the main challenge in the next … More