My Travels in India & Nepal

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September 30th 2008

Published: October 5th 2008

I have just returned from my travels and am absolutely shattered from the whole experience. It was a trip carried out at a hectic pace, with almost no time to relax and more importantly wash clothes! I arrived in Kolkata on the 17th August. I spent a few days there before heading into the mountains where i spent three months last year. On my way up i was delayed by two days due to strikes. The H... Read Full Entry

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Yes, this is a fridge!

Namche Bazaar, the hub of all treks in the region

We ended up laying nearly 200 games of "Didge". the overall winner at the end of the treip would be bought a pizza by the overall loser

George's morning ritual

His water filtering took nearly 30mins. He was the only one to do this every day

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a holy lake, 5000m

View from our hotel at gokyo

4:00am, the morning of our first ascent

We climbed 700m in 2 hours. It was the toughest walk of my life. The air was very thin, we were all struggling with altitude sickness and the weather was terrible