Through their enthusiastic lenses, nature film-makers introduced Nepal to a global audience Götz Dieter Plage (above) drove into our lives in one of those iconic early Range Rovers, a red one if I remember right, bristling with all the latest…
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Adventurers in a Vanishing land
The world, and Nepal, have changed since the days of Wilfred Thesiger and Freya Stark Dame Freya Stark looked around her with some bemusement as we left the bustle of Kathmandu airport and headed into town. “I feel we must be somewhere East of…
Infectious enthusiasm for travel
Typhoid is just another part of Nepal’s adventure tourism package There is never a good moment to contract typhoid, and I’ve had it three times in Nepal. With a two-week incubation period, many different strains, and highly contagious through shit…
Wintering in Mongolia
“I don’t think we get many tourists at this time of year.” The Mongolian airline official looked doubtfully at the lines of stocky Mongols lined up at the Hong Kong airport check in desks. “Mostly only foreigners coming for business.…
Hillary’s 49th day
The climber’s ashes were scattered on waters off Auckland on the holy day of the Sherpa commemoration in Nepal High on the Valley rim I was walking through rough grass in the mountaineers’ memorial park at Kakani, in search of a…