Expeditions in Nepal
Meantime let us count blessings, means thousands of peaks, climbed undimmed, of every size, shape and order of difficulty, where each of us may find our own Mt Everest. HW Tillman Mount Everest 1938
In lofty Nepal they are a world of them selves and here, in the abode of the snow: time and space have meanings unlike anything that humans have ever encountered. They are difficult to describe: reality and fantasy overlap.
The Nepal Himalayas extend approximately 1000 kilometers between the kangchenjunga massifs at the east ,to the karnali River at the west ,accounting ford a third of the entire Himalayan mountain system .They are not accessible to the outside world until the modern frontiers of Nepal were drawn at the conclusion of the British-Nepalese War of 1814-1816.
Apart from one or two incursion across the border by various travelers and mountaineers, Nepal and its mountains remained relatively unknown until1994.
Where the door to Nepal was re-opened in the mid 20th century two factors made it attractive for climbers and explorers. First it was new territory teaming with high peaks, many of them giants that had been observed only from far: and second, of 31 Himalayan peaks that exceeded 7,600 meters, 22 students the Nepalese Landscape including eight of the world 14 highest .The golden decade of mountaineering ran from 1950 to 1960.After Nepal was opened to outside visitors.
Meantime let us count blessings, means thousands of peaks, climbed undimmed, of every size, shape and order of difficulty, where each of us may find our own Mt Everest. HW Tillman Mount Everest 1938
In lofty Nepal they are a world of them selves and here, in the abode of the snow: time and space have meanings unlike anything that humans have ever encountered. They are difficult to describe: reality and fantasy overlap.
The Nepal Himalayas extend approximately 1000 kilometers between the kangchenjunga massifs at the east ,to the karnali River at the west ,accounting ford a third of the entire Himalayan mountain system .They are not accessible to the outside world until the modern frontiers of Nepal were drawn at the conclusion of the British-Nepalese War of 1814-1816.
Apart from one or two incursion across the border by various travelers and mountaineers, Nepal and its mountains remained relatively unknown until1994.
Where the door to Nepal was re-opened in the mid 20th century two factors made it attractive for climbers and explorers. First it was new territory teaming with high peaks, many of them giants that had been observed only from far: and second, of 31 Himalayan peaks that exceeded 7,600 meters, 22 students the Nepalese Landscape including eight of the world 14 highest .The golden decade of mountaineering ran from 1950 to 1960.After Nepal was opened to outside visitors.
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