Nepal 2000 by Omar DeWitt (This is one chapter in a recently published book, The 23-Hour Day. Find out more about this book at http://23hourday.com) Sue and I joined a trip to Nepal run by Country Walkers to hike in the Annapurna conservation district. Our group, coming from various parts of the United States, was comprised of ten women and me, the token male. We met for the first time in the capital, Kathmandu. Kathmandu, like other third-world cities of its size and age, has narrow streets filled largely by people on foot. In 2000, vehicular traffic flowed somewhat on the honor system. There were a few signs and traffic lights, but mostly cars and busses and trucks just moved until something got in their way; then they tried to ease around the obstruction or
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