5th January 2019 A gentle sense of achievement flushes the veins, as in the bright air we start to descend:…
Toward the Unknown Region
This eloquent title belongs to a poem in Walt Whitman´s Leaves of Grass. It begins: Darest thou now, O Soul,…
Altibajos …. or the ups and downs of the trek – and its exigencies
We have to accept ups and downs, so nicely captured in the Spanish word altibajos. But it is difficult not…
Take things as they come
Should we embrace a teleological view of the trek, that it only has meaning based on its purpose to complete…
Zen and the art of trekking
Sometimes the contrast between the real and painful effort made during the trek and the imaginative mental projection of finally…
Everest Region: to the Gokyo Lakes
Beginnings Exactly ten years ago, during the January school break in Nepal, when I was working in Kathmandu University High…
Khopra Ridge
Day 16 – Day 21: Tatopani to Nayapul We reached Tatopani by bus from Jomsom. This might have been the…
Thorung La
Day 11: Shree Kharka to Yak Kharka All preliminaries cast aside, we must attempt the main challenge in the next…
Tilicho Lake
Day 8: Manang to Shree Kharka The river is a diminished current now, meandering across a stony flood plain that…
Himalayan Blue
Round Annapurna (Bhul Bhule to Manang – 7 days) Despite having lived in Nepal earlier for a total of almost…