by Lokemun Magar

Created on: February 20, 2008

NEPAL is the country where mountains shout 'Never Ending Peace and Love'. Nepal is where one finds never-ending peace and love on its mountains. Mountains may be defaced by mankind. But man's devastations can never move mountains away. Instead, through all the centuries since they were formed, its mountains have been unmovable. Nepal's mountains will stand tall, strong and peaceful through all ages.

Mountains have always been the reason why people flock to Nepal. Mountains are where we find the immense beauty of God and His steadfastness. Mountains are where you find the pure source of living water, the silver lining on every cloud, the gentle breeze of Jesus. Mountains are where Kitaro got his inspirations to write his world renowned compositions. Mountains are where many find enlightenment.

Are there mountains which seem dead? Desert mountains seem dead but 'seem' is the word for below the hot surface, there will always be a cool seam where life is evident, such as the hustle and bustle of a nest of busy and resilient ants. The scorching hot sun turns every pebble into potential heat energy for cooking instant noodles perhaps. Ganesh Himal in the Nepalese valley is one such range.

These desert mountains on Ganesh Himal seem deserted save for a few weird souls who are clawing away at pebble-strewn inclinations of sixty degrees or less to try to scramble up the slopes while in the nearing distance, the boots of platoons of the ever resilient and sure-footed Nepalese soldiers called Gurkha in training pound up and down the same hills in rhythmic taunts. There is never a dull moment on those earth-tone dunes of Ganesh Himal despite the burning sun.

Go to the extremes to the ridges of icy cold Everest, a wrongly spelled version of Ever rest', perhaps. We will forever rest in peace as Sir Edmund Hillary did, having conquered its peace, or as a very good Nepalese friend of mine would say in jest, "I love myself too much to risk death scaling that mountain." A wrong footing may snuff the very last breath out of him.

If you want to see snow, slate and ice at a less precarious altitude and yet feel a sense of accomplishment, attempt the Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) treks. These range from easy the one day Royal Trek, to exhilarating the ten to fourteen day trek to the snowy white base camp. As a reward for reaching its base camp you can frolic in the freshly fallen snow the morning after. Novices who have done so would have forgotten the pain and difficulties they have experienced

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