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May 12 Rinche – Lama Hotel – Langtang – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 1:04 pm

Day two and we dined with the Sherpa porters, cooks and guides by a campfire. There is no electricity in this valley other than our flashlights and my Sony World Band radio.I turn it on getting a scratchy Nepali station playing local music sounding much like Indian music. The Sherpa are happy and break out […]

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May 14, 1990 – Langtang Glacier – Nepal – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 12:00 pm

Published on: May 22, 2024 As promised the trek across the landslide was tricky. Loose shale and rocks under foot. Dorge said two houses had been swept away by the avalanche. “No one was killed. One man still missing.” He said this with resignation to the danger of living in the Himalayas. Another trekker Miriam […]

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May 16, 1990 Langtang Glacier – Nepal – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 11:10 am

Published on: May 28, 2023 We have reached Langtang Village. 3500 meters. This is the highest I’ve been in this life. The porters and cook are busy smoking cigarettes and drinking hot tea heavily dosed with yak butter for strength and sustinence. Breakfast on the trail had been mostly oat porridge, eggs, chapati, pancakes with […]

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May 13, 1990 – Langtang Trek, Nepal – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 10:42 am

Previously published May 21, 2023 I wish my camera was functional. The scenery and people are amazing. I speak with two German trekkers. Dieter is in his 40s. Thin and fit. His hiking partner is Miriam. She has decided to not wear boots and go barefoot like some of our Sherpas. She attacks me for […]

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May 11, 1990 – Syabru Besi – the Himalayas – Nepal – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 8:20 am

Previously published Nov 10, 2020 Before leaving Kathmandu on the bus to Langtang Glacier, Lance and I dropped two valium each. The road was reputed to be extremely treacherous and neither of us wanted to experience the fears. At Thamel the driver loaded about sixty Nepalese onto the bus along with our guide, Dorge. Our […]

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