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From Lodge-to-Lodge Trekking & Hiking to River Rafting and Much More!

The aura of Everest calls to everyone, whether you’re an experienced mountaineer or an armchair adventurer. Tales of great climbers such as Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, and George Leigh Mallory resonant with us because of the inherent drama in one of the most basic literary conflicts: man versus nature.

Rich in geography, Nepal is the obvious setting for many of these man (meaning man and woman) versus nature stories to be played out. The mountainous north has eight of the world’s ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, called Sagarmatha in Nepali. In addition to the rock and ice at some of the Earth’s highest elevations, there are temperate broadleaf and coniferous forests on the slopes of the Himalayas, subtropical broadleaf and coniferous forests in the Hill Region, and tropical savannas along the Indian border.

You can sample many of these biomes on your trip to Nepal. Raft or float on the Seti River, explore the country’s jungle lowlands where tigers still roam, or go Himalaya trekking lodge-to-lodge.

Don’t worry if you’re not physically quite up to an Everest climb. Rather than trekking and camping in tents on your Nepal tour, you may choose to embark on moderate to occasionally rigorous four- to six-hour hikes (while never getting higher than 12,500 feet or so and with your gear being carried by porters), ending up in carefully chosen and spectacularly located lodges. Take one of the world’s great mountain flights to Pokhara, Nepal’s center of adventure, where for the next few days, you can walk through tranquil valleys and villages and revel in fantastic views of the Annapurnas, especially of Machapuchare, a mountain as impressive as the Matterhorn and almost a mile and a half higher. From Kathmandu, you can fly into the Sherpa homeland, the storied Khumbu, for another glorious stint of hiking, wandering in famous villages like Thame and Khumjung, and overnight in another series of comfortable lodges. Through it all, Everest, that earthly apex, will be your constant guardian.

On your Nepal travels, you’ll learn that folklore is an integral part of Nepalese society, often enacted in dance and music. Fittingly, those traditional stories are rooted in the great themes of literature: those commonly codified as “man against man,” “man against self,” and “man against nature.”

Answer the call of Nepal, where your own literary masterpiece waits to be written.

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