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A Visit to NepalScott A. YostOctober 23 - December 6, 1994 |
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Nepal is a wonderful place for trekking. If you like to walk, there is no more inspiring place to do it. These pages show pictures and a journal from my treks. Traveling to Nepal is actually not very difficult, and the country is well-prepared to receive trekkers. I hope that these pages will encourage others to discover this beautiful part of the world for themselves. This is an account of my first excursion away from America. In the fall of 1994, I spent six weeks visiting Nepal. After exploring Kathmandu, I went to the Everest Region for a twenty day trek. There, I climbed two 18,000-foot hills, Kala Pattar and Gokyo Ri for views of Mt. Everest and its surroundings, and visited the Buddhist monastery at Tengboche. Then I went to Pokhara for a ten day trek to the Annapurna Base Camp and Poon Hill. Finally, I visited the Royal Chitwan National Park for some elephant rides and jungle walks among the rhinos, monkeys, and other wildlife. Nepal is a beautiful country with wonderful people. I was so happy with my first trip that I returned in 2000 with friends for a camping trek around the Annapurna Circuit (and an anticipated peak climb, which was canceled due to heavy snow). I was accompanied on both treks described here by my guide, Lal Man, who was an excellent companion. In fact, he is living in the U.S. now, but still operates a trekking company, Lal Man Trekking and Adventure, which I believe is now managed by Lal's nephew.
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About this site:I made this web site in early 1995. My brother scanned some of my pictures during a Christmas visit a few weeks after I returned, and I typed my journal to make a print copy for my parents. I put these together on my desktop computer at U.T. Knoxville, enigma.phys.utk.edu, where I had installed the CERN web server a year earlier. (My web site predated U.T.'s.) After co-founding Virtual Interactive Center later that year, I moved the pages to their present location. It was one of the first sites about Nepal on the web, receiving a link from the Whole Internet Catalog (the first web site to sell banner ads) and one from Conde Naste Traveler in the mid-1990's. The site was updated to take advantage of some useful web advances, including in-line JPEG images and tables, which were not supported in browsers at the time of its creation. The site still conforms mostly to mid-1990's conventions, but the links are updated periodically, and images from a second trip (2000) were added. After my first trek, I also posted frequently to the Usenet newsgroup rec.travel.asia (predating the web, but now probably most familiar through the Google Groups interface), and some of my advice on hiring porters made it into the 1997 edition of Stan Armington's Lonely Planet guidebook, Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya. High-resolution versions of photos in this site have been used in a Microsoft poster, Stairmaster ads, and several magazines, including the cover of an Italian running magazine. |
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Copyright 
Scott A. Yost, 1995.
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