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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Day 8: Manang to Shree Kharka The river is a diminished current now, meandering across a stony flood plain that…

Round Annapurna (Bhul Bhule to Manang – 7 days) Despite having lived in Nepal earlier for a total of almost…