Trailgunner Blogs

 With a lot of work pressure off my shoulders, it gave me ample time to jot down what I wanted to achieve in the next few weeks. Nepal has a plethora of treks/circuits/summits to choose from, however, the one one trek that I really fancied as my first Nepalese adventure was easily 'The 3 High Passes' in the Kumbhu region. This beautiful and difficult trek goes around the Everest region and has multiple Pass crossings with varied altitude ranges which really intrigued me since I started reading more about it. The  fascination was also due to  the fact that till now, I had only trekked with commercial trekking companies in India who mainly had options to cover 1 pass in a week. So, to try doing multiple passes and doing it solo sounded quite exciting. More than 30,000 hikers venture into Nepal's Everest region each year. More than 70% of them hike between the months of Apr-Jun. Most of them make a beeline from the airstrip in Lukla to tattered and windswept Everest Basecamp...

  The first seeds of this impending journey were planted post a treacherous and arduous summit of Bali Pass in Sep'19. Couple of us barely survived the snowstorm which hit us but it also opened up a huge sense of adventure within me. It's quite hard to explain but when you overcome some of the most difficult challenges, Mother nature throws at you, you feel more powerful than you can ever imagine yourselves to be. Next stop, Nepal!! How did that happen so quickly? Well, the idea was brewing in my head for the last few months. After reading multiple books on the thrills and agony of trekking in Nepal (Annapurna & Ascent of Everest, the most read ones), I had to take a stand on going ahead with at least a plan in my head. Working in an IT organisation in India, you can conceive a lot of ideas/plans, however, the final say will always depend on your boss who cannot fathom you not warming your seat for more than 10 days. Also, it doesn't help that their sense of adventure i...