A stunning alternative to the Annapurna Base Camp or Everest Base Camp treks, Mardi Himal is a 5-day journey in a quiet corner of Nepal’s Dhaulagiri region.
A hapless guide, poison tea, and fatal flooding these are the hard lessons we learned about the avoidable dangers of trekking in Nepal. After getting a glorious 105 miles through the Upper Mustang region of Nepal under our belts, the sky seemed the limit to our Himalayan hiking endeavors.
In a rain-shadow region of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri mountain ranges lies one of the last Tibetan utopias, unknown by the masses as Upper Mustang, Nepal.