Alone without feeling lonely
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Alone without feeling lonely Cécile Carnimolla Mailhos In 2022, I crossed France on foot through the mountains with Hexatrek, alone. This very first experience of long-distance solo hiking literally changed my life to the point where I wrote a book about it. “Seule vers la liberté“ (Alone Towards Freedom) is the autobiographical story of this journey. It was as if a door had opened: “You have no time to waste!” Aware of the transformative power of this adventure, obsessed with a sense of urgency of living, appreciating how fortunate I am...
A Bit Mad and a Lot of Amazing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] The Highest GHT Passes, solo, are you mad? An Update from William Sommerville 12/4/24 Come with me as I solo the three highest passes and Tashi Labsa on the GREAT HIMALAYAN TRAIL HIGH ROUTE. If you talk to any guide they will tell you not to solo the Sherpani Col, West Col and Amphu Labsta passes. It’s a well given warning. Setting out to solo these passes and Tashi Labsta should not be attempted without a lot of preplanning. The route thru these passes is difficult, strenuous and at times completely invisible....
Nepal’s New Trekking Rules
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Surprise Announcement of Nepal's New Trekking Rules March 2023: A joint announcement by the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), Trekking Agents Association of Nepal (TAAN), Nepal Association of Travel and Tour Agents (NATTA), the Trekking Guide’s Union and Trekking Porter’s Union sends shockwaves through the Himalayan trekking community – solo trekking is banned in all National Parks in Nepal from the 1st April, all foreigners must take a government-registered guide employed through a government-registered trekking company. The announcement drew support (from trekking companies, guides and porters) and derision from trekkers and across...
The GHT, the highest, most rugged trail in the world!
[vc_row content_aligment="center" css=".vc_custom_1764564789724{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;background-image: url(https://www.greathimalayatrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Trevor-banner-1.jpg?id=8827) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}" min_height="400px" el_class="ght-custom-banner-section"][vc_column][vc_column_text css="" el_class="ght-banner-heading"] The GHT, the highest, most rugged trail in the world! [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] In Search of a Grand Challenge [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In search of a grand challenge I first set my sights on the GHT after hearing how few people have done the traverse unguided, I was in search of a grand challenge. I believed beforehand that this was the most challenging trail in the world, and after completing it, I still do. My prior...
The GHT is worth every minute of suffering!
[vc_row content_aligment="center" css=".vc_custom_1764564521323{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;background-image: url(https://www.greathimalayatrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Luc-Banner-Image.jpg?id=8774) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}" min_height="400px" el_class="ght-custom-banner-section"][vc_column][vc_column_text css="" el_class="ght-banner-heading"] The GHT is worth every minute of suffering! [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] My Perfect Challange [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hi, my name is Luc Hapers, 48 years young from Belgium. I have travelled extensively since I was 18. Since 2011, I´m also into ultrarunning and I´ve done several 100 milers and even longer races. But when that was not satisfying enough anymore I started looking for something more challenging. So, searching the net I came across the GHT about 3...
An utterly awesome experience!
[vc_row content_aligment="center" css=".vc_custom_1764564307912{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;background-image: url(https://www.greathimalayatrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Izzy-and-Andrew-BANNER.jpg?id=7644) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}" min_height="400px" el_class="ght-custom-banner-section"][vc_column][vc_column_text css="" el_class="ght-banner-heading"] An utterly awesome experience! [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] Izzy and Andrew take on the GHT! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our names are Isabella (Izzy) and Andrew (Ronnie). We hiked The Great Himalaya Trail in the spring of 2019 over 107 days. We first visited Nepal in 2011 to complete the three passes hike in Solukumbu region including the walk out to Jiri. Ever since we'd been busting to come back to Nepal. In early 2018 when we decided...
The GHT, what a blast!
[vc_row content_aligment="center" css=".vc_custom_1764564111890{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;background-image: url(https://www.greathimalayatrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cedric-banner.jpg?id=7632) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}" min_height="400px" el_class="ght-custom-banner-section"][vc_column][vc_column_text css="" el_class="ght-banner-heading"] The GHT, what a blast! [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] A marvelous journey! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After hiking the Continental Divide Trail and having experimented high altitude trekking with few 6000+ summits in South America few years back, I needed a new long distance challenge. I had heard of the GHT two years before and thought since, that it could be a great project. It would be long distance and high altitude combined together and the best...
Pure magic with Mactreks
[vc_row content_aligment="center" css=".vc_custom_1764563892562{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;background-image: url(https://www.greathimalayatrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Stuart-Banner-2.jpg?id=7602) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}" min_height="400px" el_class="ght-custom-banner-section"][vc_column][vc_column_text css="" el_class="ght-banner-heading"] Pure magic with Mactreks [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=""] Self-guided using a mobile phone! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Great Himalaya Trail (Nepal) - Trip Summary –Stuart Bilby I developed a deep longing to walk the Great Himalaya Trail. So starting 4 March 2014 I walked for 127 days from Darchula to Kanchenjunga Base Camp; crossing Nepal from east to west past many of the world’s tallest peaks. For the first 60 days I travelled with Lisa Lee-Johnson and for the...
Doc’s solo GHT retold!
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