Day 12: Dobato to Ghandruk (The last day) We froze all night in our thin walled little room at the lodge in Dobato. I was fully dressed, in my sleep sack, sleeping bag, and heavy wool blanket over everything, and still never got warm. The cold can get you going in the morning, and once […]
Day 9: Khopra to Chistibang: 4.5 hours, 650m elevation loss What goes up must also come down, and after a freezing night in the community lodge at Khopra, some spectacular sunrise photos, and a rough idea of the trail we wanted to take, we set off, aiming for a village that wasn’t on our map, […]
One week into our trek, we were at the bottom of the valley, on a road, with buses. We could have gotten ourselves out of there via motorised transport, but we’re more masochistic than that. It was only natural that we decided to go back up,on foot, to a lesser travelled to ridge, higher than […]
Day 5: Khibang to Tatopani: 6 hours, 850m elevation loss What should have been a 2.5 hour downhill stroll turned in to a 4 hour ordeal down terraced fields, sandy roads, across landslides, over the ridge of a mountain, and down, down, down switchbacked stone steps on a tiny ridge, culminating in two long suspension […]
Day 4: Ghorepani to Khibang: Down, Down and Down some more (8 hours, 1,050m elevation loss With our rest day over, we left Ghorepani after numerous goodbyes between Austin and his gaggle of friends, including Rihanna, the girl about his age whose father is a Gurkha in the British Army. She’ll be joining him in […]
Poon Hill: 3 hours, 3.5 miles, 350m elevation gain We woke up at 4 am on a chilly and clear morning in Ghorepani, ready to start our 1.5 mile climb up to Poon Hill. This viewpoint is the “money shot” of the Annapurnas, with Dhaliguari, Annapurna Soutn and others, all coming into perfect view, one […]
Hille to Ghorepani: (9 hours, 1800 m total elevation gain) There are moments as a parent when your child surprises you with such immense amounts of resilience and taps into depths of the human psyche that you can’t believe you’re speaking to a 6 year old. Your precious offspring cries glitter tears and shits rainbows […]
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