The GHT featured in National Geographic Adventure Magazine
October 20th, 2009
"Nepal's Amazing Comeback"
The Great Himalaya Trail is featured in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Their writer, James Vlahos and photographer Dmitri Alexander, visited Humla, Lower Mustang and the Solo Khumbu regions.
“I dreamt in music, of singing and clapping reverberating through the starry blackness of a Himalayan night. But when sunlight hit my tent at dawn, the serenade was still going. Following the sound, I crossed terraced fields that stairstepped to what looked like a medieval castle. It was built of intricately chiseled stones, laced by crooked alleys, and topped with colorful, wind-whipped flags. The midnight singers were gathered at the base of the southern wall. They were processing the barley harvest and, to judge by a suspicious level of graveyard shift enthusiasm, had been working—and drinking—all night.”
Read the article here on the National Geographic Adventure Travel Website here.
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