Palermo Peak Climbing

Pachermo peak climbing is an enticing straight forward snowy peak lying south of Tashi Labtsa which was summited by Phil Boultbee and Dennis Davis in 1955. In reality though, trekking in Nepal is not anything shocking and not too out of the ordinary for anybody who has been on a long hike.

So what's trekking in Nepal, if the appropriate answer is much more than just the stereotypical, travel in Nepal by trekking? Let's start with a small geography. Nepal, is a landlocked nation, sandwiched between India and Tibet and stretched Trekking In Nepal to numerous sounds like one of those activities out along the spine of the Himalayan range. What trekking in Nepal does, will create an chance for the traveler to traverse many parts of the varied terrain on foot, and experience the varied habitats and civilization struck along the road. However however, although completely true, this response is incomplete.

We need to clear up a few assumptions. Clearly, Nepal is considered as 'distant' geographically when viewed against other "more developed" areas of the world, but this does not indicate that Nepal is uninhabited and that when trekking one will increase for weeks without seeing any signs of life. This is particularly true for the common major trekking regions of Nepal. The main reason why is really quite simple.

Nepal being located on the mountainous terrain that it is, in addition to proudly sporting the "third world" badge has to the day, a staggering variety of'1' major highway. Appropriately dubbed the East-West Highway, it spans the country and provides less than a couple of axillary paths south and north with just one of these tributaries as the route to Tibet (China) from Kathmandu. The importance of this, is that lots of pieces of Nepal, are to the day inaccessible by vehicle and several parts, particularly those in the West which are totally isolated. One has to realize that prior to the 'East West' highway was constructed, the cities and settlements of Nepal were already there, and thus for this day, many of these public centers continue to be only available on foot.

Nepal is a nation that has been squeezed between two trading giants India and Tibet for as long as it's existed as a unified nation. The trade routes between both of these Goliaths ran conveniently for Nepal trough it's territory. Nepal not only had to ease commerce between these two countries, but also have a way to support it's own economy and trade system between the significant metropolitan areas. Needless to say, that without streets, the sole method of transport was by foot. A method of transporting goods by a web of footpaths was generated and also this rather complex,'via foot' type of Himalayan highway structure connected the Nepali villages with one another and are now the specific same paths traveled with the visiting trekkers.

It's easy to assume and wonder, that the settlements that provide bed and breakfast encountered along the trekking routes appeared in such convenient intervals because of their expanding tourism itself. This other than some contemporary conveniences like power is actually false. In a book called "A Stranger in Tibet," the writer Scott Berry, describes the adventures of a particular Buddhist, Japanese monk that traveled along the now popular trekking route in the Annapurna Conservation Area so as to sneak into the then forbidden .

This monks adventure occurred in the early 1900s way before the word "tourism" was considered in Nepal and the same settlements encountered by tourists and utilized as overnight accommodations today were encountered by this intrepid monk (Kawaguchi) several 100 years before. The main reason is that these paths were being used for transporting goods even before Kawaguchi's adventures, as such they are more frequently than not, no longer than a half a week journey from one another; built out of necessity because continent travel stops for the traveling caravans.