Ten Days in the Indian Himalaya As many of you know, I took a mountaineering course from NOLS (national outdoor leadership school) just after graduating from college in 1998. The course dramatically impacted my life and set me on my current career path working in outdoor education. So last summer, when I discovered that NOLS was offering an alumni trip to go trekking in the Indian Himalaya, I bumped up my departure schedule from the US and signed up. This would be my second visit to the Himalaya, having trekked around Nepal's Annapurna range for nearly a month in the spring of 2003. While spring time annually blankets the Himalayan hillsides in wildflowers, the autumn trekking season is known for spectacularly clear views of the high peaks after the monsoon rains have cleansed the landscape. And
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