To Know About Nepal By Trekking And Mountaineering

The best way to experience Nepal's unbeatable combination of natural beauty and cultural riches is to walk through them. One can walk along the beaton trails or virgin tracks. Either way you are in for an experience for a lifetime. Along with forests of rhododendron, isolated hamlets and small mountain villages, birds ,animals, temples, monasteries and breathtaking landscapes, and tourist will also encounter friendly people of different cultures- offering a fascinating glimpse of traditional rural life.

Trekking is possible any time of the year depending on where you are going. The popular seasons are spring and autumn. During winter, trkking is possible at lower altitudes. During the monsoon season, tourists can trek in the rain shasdow areas north of the Himalayas like Mustang, Upper Manang and Dolpa. These places are out of reach of the rain clouds, because of the high mountains and are unaffected by the monsoon.

Just like trekking different areas, Nepal has given facilities to the tourists for mountaineering . The 800km stretch of the Nepal Himalaya is the greatest in the world with eight peaks that rise above 8,000m including the highest in the world,Mt. Everest. Ever since the country opened its peaks to climbers in1949.

The Nepal Himalaya has become a great theatre of mountaineering activity and the drama of success and failure have provided impects to thousands of men and women to meet the ultimate challenges. As we can say they should have a strong heart, like you know Pasang Lhamu Sherpa,the first nepali women mountainer.

The Himalaya has been an attraction to many people, be they saints, philosophers, researchers or adventurers. There are 18 peaks in the range of 6,500m and below, open for Alpine trekking under Nepal Mountaineering Association or NMA. It should be noted that in most cases the climbing of these peaks require snow and ice climbing experience.

So, a foreigner tourists or internal tourists intending to trek in any part of the Republic of Nepal. And they are also intending to mountaineering our beatiful peaks and mountains. Wel-Come to tourists in our country.