thewills'wanderings

Share and Care Nepal is a Christian organisation that is supported financially by Tear Fund NZ. As part of the 25 year celebrations for Adventure Specialties a trip to Nepal was planned. Of course, a major part of this was about climbing and trekking but while in Nepal we also wanted to see if we could do something for some local people here.

Well, through Tear Fund NZ it was arranged for us to spend some time with Share and Care Nepal and help out in some way. Until we arrived here, we weren’t at all sure of the detail but they had plans for us and it was great getting an insight into the fantastic work that they do here.

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As part of celebrating Adventure Specialties 25th anniversary trekking and climbing in Nepal was a perfect choice for a celebration. What was even better was that with a bit of juggling around we could fit it in to our world trip plans.

Tim, Lyndsay and Mark wanted to attempt a high peak so it was decided that trekking in the Langtang Valley for all of us with some high peaks for the “real” climbers would be a good option. We employed Sherpa Adventures to arrange it for us, which went right against our good old kiwi do-it-yourself style. We are sure are glad we did though, it was great having everything arranged for us.

Heading off from Kathmandu, we had the 12 of us, 5 porters and Hari our absolutely wonderful ,hero guide who now feels like part of the family. We had a private bus to get us to the start of our trek. The bus ride was a gruelling 10 hour trip on a very hairy, scary, dirt, rocky, road high up in the mountains where there seems to be only room for one vehicle but the drivers seem to be able to deal with on-coming traffic. For me the bus ride there and back was by far the hardest, scariest part of travel so far, Now that I’m back, safe and sound, I can look back on it without breaking out in a cold sweat. As you can imagine Tim loved it.(very sick man!)

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What an amazing few days we have had here in Kathmandu. Chaotic is probably the first word that comes to mind ... [Continue reading this entry]