Trekking guidebooks
There are a number of guidebooks for trekking in Nepal in the English language and, of course, many others in other languages.
Nepal Trekking and the Great Himalaya Trail - Robin Boustead. Click for more information from Trailblazer.
Trailblazer Guides have published a Great Himalaya Trail guidebook authored by Robin Boustead. It’s available online and in larger bookstores worldwide. It includes detailed information about all of the trail in Nepal, and including shorter trekking itineraries along the trail from east to west.
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Lonely Planet: Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya
Lonely Planet offers a comprehensive guidebook: Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya, now in its seventh edition, with a large number of trekking itineraries, plus all the necessary guidebook information about Nepal, health, getting around etc. This book has no specific information for trekking the Great Himalaya Trail however, though many treks it describes are connected by the trail.
Trekking in Nepal: A Traveler’s Guide
A rather different kind of guide book is Trekking in Nepal, A Traveler’s Guide by Stephen Bezruchka. It’s designed for independent trekkers, and while it gives the necessary details of where to go and how to get around, its focus is much more on helping you get the most out of your trip as a cultural experience. As one reviewer puts it:
Stephen Bezruchka has prepared a valuable and complete guide to trekking in the Nepal / Everest region. The book offers practical advise from years of personal experience for anyone thinking about a trip to the area. Bezruchka also creates a much needed ecological awareness and offers substantial insight into the culture of Nepal.
His ideas about staying in people’s homes, contributing to the local economy, and leaving Nepal the way you found it, are not the usual fuzzy feel-good travel-guide schlock but concrete, practical suggestions indicative of the author’s social consciousness.
From discussions on trekking styles, destinations as well as interaction and health care to the various trekking routes with complete descriptions this book will make traveling not only less stressful, but more enjoyable.
The book is much more than a travel guide – it is an education in culture, history and custom. The foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary is an added bonus to an already excellent book.
This book has been guiding visitors throughout the intricacies of trekking in Nepal since 1972. Now Alonzo Lyons adds his expertise to Stephen Bezruchka’s decades of experience to show you how to get off tourist heavy trails and explore lesser travelled areas and routes.
You can find a review of Robin Boustead’s trekking guidebook here http://nepalitimes.com/issue/2011/06/24/Review/18316
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