Namaste!Well soon it will be time to begin the 36 odd hours back to Ottawa, and I thought I would take the time to chat about the last month in Nepal. Friendship would be the best way to describe my third time here. My goal in coming here was not to run the stoutest rivers, my goal was to foster a develop the friends that I had made the last two seasons, that and run really fun rivers every day. Nailed it! Nepal is fast becoming a second home, its mountains, rivers, but especially the people are what have brought me back every year, and will bring me once again in the fall. Let me take a moment to describe it to you. The mountainsI am based out of Pokhara, lakeside to be specific to one side is Fewa Lake one of the most beautiful polluted lakes (cesspool?) I have been to. It is ringed on one side by the foot hills of the Himilaya, hills pushing 1300 meters. On the other side is the hustle and bustle of Lakeside, the tourist area of Pokhara. I spent many a late afternoon and early evenings sitting and enjoying the hazy sunset as it sets over the lake. Just out of site and often missed by the tourists on lakeside lies some of the highest mountains in the Himalaya and there for the world, the Annapurna Range. From just off of Lakeside on a clear day, or early in the morning theses monsters begin to show them self's. The most prominent is Machhapuchhre, just three meters short of seven thousand it dominates the skyline of Pokhara. This is a very holy mountain, the Nepali government have closed it to climbing as all that have attempted it have died. To the right lies Annapurna 3 just over seven thousand meters. To the left, one of the highest mountains in the world lies hidden, at just over eight thousand meters (8091 to be specific) Annapurna 1 is over shadowed by Machhapuchhre, but is still a reminder just how tall the mountains can get. If you take a cab, or hike up to Sarangnkot (one of the taller hills in the area) for sunrise, you can catch, not only the magic of the Himalaya but the Dhaulagiri Massif far to to the left, Manaslu far to the right,and the start of the Everest range far, far to the right. The Rivers
The People
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