Trekking Nepal, 8th Edition: A Travelers Guide

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In every village I was typically assailed by inquisitive youngsters, and when I stopped for the night I was inevitably overwhelmed by their infectious curiosity. But that I spoke English; now that was something I could help them with. And soon, after bragging about our Keltys, the Peace Corps began ordering them for other volunteers.

Today there are many brands of backpacks on the market, but outdoor sport historians remind us that Dick Kelty was the pioneer inventor. His innovative design dates to when he and a hiking companion decided to shift the weight of the back load from the shoulders to the hips. This was when both of them realized that this is a much easier and comfortable way of carrying a load.

Then he replaced the wood frame with light aluminum tubing, the canvas bag with rip-stop nylon, and the rest is history Dick Kelty once told me that he kept a photo under the glass on his office desk — of me with my Kelty Pack on trek in the Himalayas. But because there were no mountaineering stores or trekking outfitters in India or Nepal in those days, he had a problem.

A decade later when I needed trekking shoes, I went to the old Bata shoe store on New Road in downtown Kathmandu where I, too, encountered the problem of size. To free up my cramped feet, I cut away some of the rubber toe cap, then wore the ugly green things for many miles like open-toed sandals. It is supreme for that everyday Himalayan pastime of boulder-hopping provided the boulders are dry , and is generally suitable for climbing except on wet rock, wet ice, or fresh snow on rock. It is a matter of taste. Early treks and trekkers of note Neither the early Peace Corps volunteers of the s nor the British adventurers of the early s were the first foreigners to trek in Nepal, of course.

That distinction goes to others, like Joseph Dalton Hooker, the English botanist who roamed the eastern hills in ; to the English adventurer Douglas Freshfield and the Italian photographer Vittorio Sella who were the first to circumambulate Kangchenjunga in ; and to the 14 Indians from the Survey of India who mapped virtually the whole of Nepal in for the British colonials in Delhi.

Death drops Well before modern trail repairs and road-building, some of the original old bridges and riverside tracks were quite terrifying. While traveling from Kathmandu west to Pokhara in the early s, a Gurkha Army officer named Duncan Forbes and his porter Manbahadur confronted a dangerous crossing in Gorkha District. Each level of timbers overlapped the course on which it rested and stretched out further towards the middle.

The gap in the middle was spanned by more planks. The whole thing had slipped at one end and was twisted and leaning at such an angle that it look as though it might collapse at any moment. The flimsy wooden handrail was so loose that to hang on to it would have been fatal.

I looked across the gimcrack structure at the cliff on the other side, and balancing precariously I crept across. On the far side someone told them that a few weeks earlier a man had fallen off the broken bridge to his death. When my companion Bruce and I came down the Marsiangdi river track from Manang to Lamjung District in , we crossed several cliffs on narrow wooden planks laid atop posts driven horizontally into cracks in the rock face. They were seldom wider than a single plank and were reached by a stone staircase or up-ended logs with footholds cut in them.

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When the river was low many of these cat-walks could be avoided by a little boulder-hopping in the river bed. In the rains the traveler has no choice. He must then mind his step The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, another early trek pioneer from the s, encountered similar perilous crossings on cliffs along the Arun river gorge in eastern Nepal. So did the Tibetologist, David Snellgrove, out west on his seven-month trek through the high Himalayas. As a Gurkha officer in India, Roberts had plenty of experience rambling through the Indian Himalayas.

Then, in , he became one of the first modern Brits to trek and climb west of Kathmandu. In those days mountaineering expeditions necessitated some very serious trekking. But more to the point, to get there and back Tilman and his companions had to trek, hard, for weeks. While in Manang District, they were the first foreigners to Nar and Phu, and the first to trek much of what is now the well known Annapurna Circuit route. Jimmy Roberts fell in love with Nepal on that trip, and returned often.

It was the start of a long walk to what has become a booming adventure travel industry. The original Mountain Travel is now part of the Tiger Mountain group.

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I would have 8 bags, 8 pads, 8 this, and 8 that. Three years later when I led the two Mountain Travel treks, we stayed the first few nights in the old Royal Hotel on Kantipath it now houses Election Commission. The Royal gave us a taste of historical panache. The final, total experience remains yours to create, and to enjoy to full without organizational worries or distractions.

Stated simply, I would say we are trying to show you the mountains of Nepal, its valleys and villages and people, under the best possible conditions, but without shielding you from reality. Rusty Brennan, who operates a company called Ri Adventure Travel and knows the system well, is more explicit. For guides, cooks and kitchen boys, Roberts favored employing Sherpas, the indigenous residents of the Mount Everest region.

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