Some plans go better than others. We had a great trek in the Dolpo, enjoyed it immensely, but got home with the distinct feeling that it c...

After camping in Jumla last night, the last one under canvas, we're now back in Kathmandu and getting ready for our flight home tomorr...

Today was our last proper trekking day, a day blessed with great weather and a heroic goat. It was really hot and again the route seemed...

I've learnt a number of things on this trip which, taken together, make me think that if I ever came back that I would do it different...

Despite losing 2 days in Nepalgunj at the start of the trek, we are now back on schedule. The weather, however, is cold so rather than sto...

Today we had a rest day. After saying goodbye to our student friend, who still had another day's walking to her village, and a lovel...

Weather wise things have changed. After 4 days of brilliant sunshine, the clouds have dropped and it's cold and drizzly. Today we reac...

After yesterday's comment about the Nepalese and campsites, I have to report that the French seem to find them particularly exciting a...

Today's walk took us along the northern side of the Phoksumdo Lake, over a 4000m saddle, then north up a flat-bottomed valley undernea...

Today's a rest day, a chance to recover from three days tough walking and to get acclimatised ahead of a 5000m pass in a couple of day...

If yesterday was purgatory today was Shangri la. What a 24hr turnaround, our faith in Himalayan trekking has been restored and, encouraged...

Today the sense that our trek to the Dolpo was jinxed returned. Things started to go wrong last night. At about 1-30 in morning, I woke ...

It rained in the night and the prospects for a Nepalgunj escape didn't look good but here we are in our tent and at last the trek has ...

We're stuck in Nepalgunj, a horrible place on the Nepal-Indian border. We're supposed to be trekking in the Dolpo but for three da...