Photos FromThe Trail

The trail was flush with suspension bridges crossing back and forth over the river. I felt no urge what-so-ever to build a bamboo raft and go down this river.

After three days and over 20 large waterfalls, I stopped counting.

Landslides from the rains kept removing parts of the trail. The day after I started hiking, a large one closed the main road from Kathmandu to Pokhara for 11 days!

Brad (South Africa), John (Venezuela) [whom I met climbing to Tilicho Lake] and I reach the Thorung La Pass in the early morning. You know the elevation's high when you're out of breath on the flat sections.

Typing an email and journal entries into my TRGpro with the Palm folding keyboard at 17,600 ft (5416 m). You can take the boy out of Silicon Valley, but you can't take Silicon Valley out of the boy!

Note to Palm: Either the Motorola processor suffers from Altitude Mountain Sickness, or processor speeds seem to drop dramatically at that temperture.

Having an early morning breakfast. Here I'm eating a bowl of Champa Porridge, which tastes like a combination of glue and, well, more glue.

I'll spare you the other 20 or so bridge pictures in my digital arsenal.

Decked out in beautiful decorations, the trail horses were always fun to run into.