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Monsoons, meat and mountains

The journey from Tadapani down to Ghandruk took around half the time as it had going up, unsurprising given the precarious speed of the steep descent. Ghandruk itself is around 500 metres lower in altitude than Tadapani and, until the arrival of the adventure trekking business, was merely a small Nepalese village of pretty, traditional […]

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The Road to Annapurna

We left early on a Wednesday morning nearly three weeks ago now. We had to make it up to Ghandruk from Pokhara with enough time to trek onwards up to Tadapani before evening or bad weather set in. The land rover finally left the city after collecting several additional passengers, all family members or relatives […]

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Head in the Clouds

I’m up in the clouds now. Literally. Yesterday I moved from the family guesthouse where I’ve been holed up these last three weeks in Lakeside Pokhara, up to the heights of Sarankgot, which, during these months of heavy monsoon, spends much of its time wreathed in a dense cloud cover. After a night of heavy […]