Promotional materials to attract trekkers to the Great Himalaya Trail. These posters can (soon) be downloaded to print locally wherever you are in the world. If you are in Nepal you can request a copy as soon as printing is completed in early 2011.
Posted: December 8th, 2010 under Blog, Promotional Materials | Comments: none
The 3G network in Nepal has reached Everest basecamp and people worry it will ruin the magic of the Solukhumbu. Well, it won’t if you don’t let it. If visiting Nepal you can can easily get a SIM card for your phone or a USB SIM for your laptop to connect to the internet.
Posted: November 26th, 2010 under Articles, Blog | Comments: none
This Tsum map also gives an overview of the Great Himalaya Trail route all the way from Syabrubesi to quite high around the Manaslu circuit trek. You’ll be able to see the villages of the Tamang Heritage Trail, the walk from Trisuli to Arughat, the route of the Tiru Danda (not marked!) as well as the long hidden region of Tsum.
Posted: November 25th, 2010 under Blog | Comments: 2
The Larkya La on the Manaslu circuit is dramatic. As one walker says: “…large Himalayan peaks started to appear to the left and right and from the top, I was completely surrounded and indeed emotionally overwhelmed by them.” This is the icing on the cake of a trek full of amazing experiences.
Posted: November 25th, 2010 under Blog, HomeGallery, Manaslu, Practical information | Comments: none
Latest updated load shedding schedule in English for Kathmandu – last updated 28th November 2010, valid for December
Posted: November 2nd, 2010 under Blog, information | Comments: 4
I subscribe to a Google alert email for “Humla Nepal” which comes in every now and again, usually with news about the price of basic goods skyrocketing due to some supply problem of other. Sometimes it’s a few weeks before a new alert comes – most people I’ve spoken to in Nepal only know of Humla as a ‘very remote’ place and nothing more and it is very seldom written about. Its treasures are indeed well hidden. Today’s Google alert email brought in two news items in stark contrast to each other. The first reported that a common-cold virus had [...]
Posted: October 18th, 2010 under Blog, Photography | Comments: none
Many people ask whether the Upper Mustang trekking permit is worth the $500. Those who have been there say “completely”.
Posted: October 16th, 2010 under Articles, Blog, information, Practical information, Upper Mustang | Comments: 19
This is a brilliant visual representation of where to go trekking in Nepal or the Himalaya produced by the Dutch company Himalaya Trekking
Posted: September 16th, 2010 under Annapurna, Naar, Phu & Upper Mustang, Blog, Dolpa and inner dolpo, Everest, Solukhumbu, Far West, Darchula Api Saipal, Humla & Limi Valley, Kanchenjunga, Langtang & Helambu, Makalu Barun, Manaslu, Maps, Rara, Jumla & Mugu | Comments: 4
It’s not quite yet a full Great Himalaya Trail but this trail running race including some of the lovely trails around Annapurna which lie on the Great Himalaya Trail lower route, from Ghorepani to Birathanti. Next year is Nepal Tourism Board’s Nepal Tourism Year 2011 and this inspiring international event is due to kick it off. The main race is 100 km with 75% of it off road. There are shorter versions of 70 km and 50 km. Could be an amazing way start the year! Learn more on the Trail Running Nepal website.
Posted: September 16th, 2010 under Blog | Comments: none
Lewis Pugh is renowned as the greatest cold-water swimmer in history. In May 2010 he swam one kilometer across Pumori tal, a meltwater lake situated next to the Khumbu Glacier on Mount Everest, at an altitude of 5300 meters, to draw attention to the melting of the Asian glaciers. He completed the swim – the highest any person has undertaken – in less than 23 minutes. “Glaciers are not just ice: they are a lifeline, they provide water to 2 billion people, and we need to protect them,” he says on the TED website. The video shows him describing his unique experience. He [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Blog, Video | Comments: none
The GHT Development Programme is helping promote the GHT to trekkers and trekking companies alike, however the main part of its work is training local people to provide services and products to the groups visiting new trekking areas – for instance guiding, cooking, lodge management etc.
Posted: August 26th, 2010 under Articles, Blog, Dolpa and inner dolpo, GHT Development Programme, Humla & Limi Valley | Comments: none
If you have ever been trekking in Nepal’s mountains, you’ll know well how cold it can get at night. For his series ‘Himalayan Nights’, travel photographer Alex Treadway spent many freezing winter evening hours getting the shot with the right combination of starlight, clouds, mountains and tent. This was taken high up on the Manaslu Circuit trek after about 10 days of walking, just before the Larke La pass (5100m). Treadway describes the next day: “The view from the Larkya La is just astonishing. It looks straight out over four converging glaciers to the huge wall of 7000 m and [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2010 under Blog, HomeGallery, Photography | Comments: none
Flip Byrnes of the Sydney Morning Herald has produced a list of some of the least-known yet most exhilarating hikes in the world and the GHT tops the list. Well it might not be a definitive list, and not-unbiased: there are some rather strong links with particular travel companies in this article. Still, the result points trekkers in the right direction to the Great Himalaya Trail. But it is not only World Expeditions who can guide you a long the GHT. For most sections of the trail in Nepal, a large number of professional companies will be able to organise [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2010 under Blog, In the press | Comments: none
Himalaya Trekking, the Dutch company that has been trekking in Nepal for over two decades, has produced a fantastic brochure which very visually shows where all of the trekking and walking routes in Nepal are.
Posted: August 20th, 2010 under Blog | Comments: none
Mugu is seldom visited. Ed Douglas attempted to head north from Gamgadhi towards Mugu and then Dolpo. The journey was cut short due to snow blocked passes. However, it was still a journey of discovery.
Posted: August 16th, 2010 under Blog, Rara, Jumla & Mugu | Comments: 2
If you are going walking or trekking in Nepal you may choose to mingle with other people like you or may decide you want to get away from it all, and get off the beaten trail. But where is busy and where is quiet? Recently some guys in Estonia came up with a map-overlay which shows where people actually visit in Nepal – well, at least those who use the Panoramio website to upload their trekking photographs. Touristiness is a word that is probably not in the dictionary yet but this is what they have called their map – the Touristiness Index. [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2010 under Blog | Comments: none
For most of the established treks in Nepal, GPS can be helpful, but is not really necessary. If you start getting up into wilds, traversing seldom used cols or crossing featureless terrain, then GPS can be a useful back up, but still not replacement for map, compass and having the good navigational skills to be able to use them. GPS is very useful however to see where others have been, to be able to plot that easily on maps, show all of the trekking options available on a map of Nepal and perhaps for accurate recording of water supplies, camping [...]
Posted: June 18th, 2010 under Blog | Comments: 2
…that you have not already been to? I have been asking a lot of people where their favourite place in Nepal is as a way of putting some of the less visited places on the map. Many people say somewhere in Solukhumbu, but then that is because that’s the place so many people visit. Chris Bonnington, celebrated British mountaineer loves Khumjung, just above Namche Bazar, because he got wonderfully drunk there in 1961 on Chang and his very dear friend, Pertemba Sherpa comes from there!. Gelinde Kaltenbrunner, loves the Kanchenjunga region because it’s so wild. Kurt Diemberger loves the valleys [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2010 under Blog | Comments: none
There are some wonderful places to discover in Nepal. Unfortunately, most visitors stick very much to the beaten trail. If you find yourself on the lower part of the trail heading to Everest base camp in peak season and you might find that you are sharing it with 300 others. The Annapurna area is very much similar and that is where most trekkers head to ‘experience’ Nepal. It’s not that these areas are not beautiful, they are stunning. Robin Boustead, a pioneer of the Great Himalaya Trail has this to say on the matter in a recent interview for the German [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2010 under Blog | Comments: none
The Five Questions blog asks people who are very familiar with Nepal, the Himalaya and trekking some questions about their most favourite places and experiences. Wanda Vivequin has been visiting and trekking in Nepal for over 10 years and has co-authored Lonely Planet Nepal Trekking Guidebook…
Posted: May 25th, 2010 under Blog, Five questions | Comments: 6
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