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Into the High Himalayas: Snow, Base Camp, and Acclimatization on the Chomolhari Trek

Tents pitched at Chomolhari base camp

(Part 3 of the Bhutan Trek Series)Go back to Part 2…. Continuing Up the Paro Valley After a wet, snowy first day trekking up the Paro Valley—and an even colder night sleeping in the tent—we woke to a simple but welcome breakfast prepared over a campfire at the stone hut in Thang Thanka. The snow …

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Turning 50 in the Himalayas: Our Trekking Adventure in Bhutan

Intro The plane banked sharply between two mountains as we descended toward the tiny airport in Paro, Bhutan. For a moment it felt like the wing might scrape the cliffs. That’s when it really hit us. We were about to begin an 11-day trekking adventure into the Himalayas. Bhutan had been on our bucket list …

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