Guide to Nepal Trek and Tour Adventures in the Himalayas

                                   Tilicho lake From khangdar   This high lake filled saddle offers a little used route to jomsom that avoids the thorong la, but the risk of avalanche and frequently bitter weather dampen most notions of taking it for the recreational trekker. Crossing to jomsom this way is really the domin of well equipped mountaineers. However, it is not such an ordeal for trekkers to reach the lake from khangsar. Check that the lodges and trail options en route are open.   During the season, while good weather continues two lodges are open at tilicho base camp , making an attempt on tilicho lake feasible for wellacclimatised trekker. ( One very fit trekker did it all one day from khangsar, but normal trekkers dhould plan three orbetter four extra days for a return trip from manang...

                           Foothills of Lamjung Himal Bound by the marsyangdi River and stretching west towards pokhara is the Lamjung District, a major new area for trekking within the Annapurna region . New routes ( and dirt roads ) are being rapidly developed type of visitor. Through home stay programmers modest trekking is being combined with cultural interaction   village development. Hikers looking for a more authentic intimate experience of traditional rural Nepal will want to check out these new routes Home stays with local families are being encouraged in order to spread the visitor’s dollars into areas where until now only subsistence agriculture has sustained has way of life.  These new trails do not require quite such a high level of fitness and enable visitors to enjoy perhaps a more comfortable trekkers ghettos of the main tr...

                                            Above base camp   The Rongbuk base camp is usually much less busy than the Nepalese equivalent on the khumbu glacier, and while from the latter base camp Everest cannot be seen at all at rongbuk the view of the world’s highest mountain is simply stunning . The North face where all the pre-war attempts took place- can be seen rising majestically out of the Rongbuk glacier. Behind changtse ( the north peak now named bei peak) now named bei peak) lies the North col, with the north Ridge rising from that to the summit ridge ( North –East Ridge). Writing in 1998 of the view of Everest Bill Tilman said seen from Rongbuk it looms up magnificently filling the head of the valley. The final pyramid with or without its streami...

                              Dhaulagiri Dhaulagiri is the world’s seventh highest mountain (8167m/26, 795ft). In Sanskrit its name means white mountain Admired by thousands of trekkers from the kali Gandaki and poon hill Dhaulagiri rested the attempts of mountaineers for longer than comparable peaks. In 1950 Herzog’s French expedition had initially hoped to summit it but after lengthy reconnaissance decided it was too dangerous turning their attention to Annapurna I instead six attempts on Dhaulagiri via the west ridge followed but it was not until 1960 that a swiss expedition finally won through albeit in controversial style. They used a light aircraft to ferry won through albeit in controversial style. They used a light aircraft to ferry food, Equipment and even climbers to the northeast col at around 5700m (18,700ft). The Pilatus ...

Himalayan Flowers                                  Buttercup Family The buttercup family Ranunculaceae, includes some of the most delicate and beautiful Himalayan flowers like anemone, larkspur marsh marigold monkshood, columbine trollius, pulsatilla, marsh marigold, monkshood columbine trollius, pulsatilla, etc. many of these are indeed familiar garden plants in temperate land and in hill in Nepal.     Trollius acaulis with horizontal stout underground rootstock densely clothed with dry bases of old petioles and palmate leaves flowers solitary, with sepals 5-10 or more , golden yellow and petaloid, the petals are minute and also yellow blooms at 3300-4500m.             A grassymeadow, near a melt- water stream at elevations of 3900-4200m, crowded with masses...