40.09 Nepal: Not just a place, a period and experience. Featuring tall snow-covered peaks and no lesser sights and sites.
A worthy tribute to what we term "Old-fashioned heroes, true heroes, a real man." TENZING and lazarow … something obviously wrong with the matching. On the right, Ama Dablam, Peak XV (Everest) to the left, covered in cloud. A person may view Nepal in at least two ways: One is to use a western lens, the other, an adventurous eye. The difference is enormous. The former, a comparison with what one is accustomed to will prove deeply disappointing, if not a challenge. Why? The country is poor; it shows. Housing, roads, sanitation, construction, transport, and on and on is so far behind western levels that many people would fear for their survival, even following a visit to a toilet. However, when one refocuses and prioritizes, looking through the adventurous eye, a different picture materializes. It is a country that does provide modern conveniences and gadgets but also allows a person to return to living and connecting to the land. Furthermore, one can travel bac...