himalayas trek index

	Click photo to enter - describes walks in the Alpine National Parks of Australia, including the 215 km northern section of the Australian Alpine Walking Track in April 2008 and the The Lakes Walk, Australia's best one-day alpine walk.
	Click photo to enter - Journey by boat from Ushuaia to the Antarctic Peninsula - an 11 day voyage made in December 2007 to discover the ice, snow and fascinating wildlife of the silent continent; includes landings on offshore islands and the Antarctic continent.
	Click photo to return - describes over 850 km of treks and shorter hikes in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, plus the odd trip by bike, 4WD and boat, as we wend our way northwards up the Andean chain and then follow it back to the tip of Patagonia between March and December 2007.
	Click photo to enter - checks out some of the walks and the wildflowers in the southwest of Western Australia during October and November 2006; describes 380 km of tracks, including the Cape to Cape Track, the last section of the Bibbulmun Track from Walpole to Albany, and several day walks in the Stirling Ranges and Cape Le Grand National Parks.
	Click photo to enter - at last the Himalayas - the holy grail of trekkers! Describes three treks totalling 200 km, walked during April and May 2006; one along the Singalila Ridge between India and Nepal, and two in Sikkim, the Goeche-La Trek and a trek to the Green Lake wilderness near Kangchenjunga.
	Click photo to enter - a 230 km walk from the top of Fraser Island to Noosa in November 2005, exploring the landscapes of the world's largest sand island and the nearby Cooloola Section of the Great Sandy National Park.
	Click photo to enter - describes 26 tramps covering 1200 km in New Zealand, walked between September 2004 and April 2005. These include all 8 "Great Walks of New Zealand" and cover a range of landscapes, from alpine ridges and deep glacial valleys to lush beech forest and isolated and rugged coastlines.
	Click photo to enter - a 3-month journey of self discovery made between February and May 2004. This diary describes a 630 km walk down the south coast of New South Wales from Sydney to Mallacoota. In our view it is one of the most diverse and picturesque stretches of coastline in the world.

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Index

Treks in Chronological Order

Prologue

Hazy Days in Darjeeling

The Singalila Ridge Trek

The Not Quite Goeche-La Trek (part 1)

The Not Quite Goeche-La Trek (part 2)

A few days in Gangtok

The Green Lake Trek - in the Sikkimese Wilderness (part 1)

The Green Lake Trek - in the Sikkimese Wilderness (part 2)

Back to earth in Bangkok

Epilogue

Upload History

25 August 2006 - At last the Epilogue!!

11 July 2006 - Bangkok stopover uploaded - a bit of a diversion from all the wilderness landscapes

7 July 2006 - Finally all the Green Lake trek has been uploaded

July 2006 - Day 8 uploaded and a few tautologies removed

5 July 2006 - Day 7 uploaded - starting back down again

4 July 2006 - The superb Green Lake landscape has been uploaded

2 July 2006 - Fifth day uploaded. I have divided the trek into two sections to speed up downloads

1 July 2006 - Fourth day uploaded

30 June 2006 - Third day of the trek uploaded - we reach 4000m

29 June 2006 - Second day of the trek uploaded

28 June 2006 - First day of the Green Lake Trek uploaded

27 June 2006 - Finally we start the Green Lake Trek. I have uploaded a 3D map and track profile

24 June 2006 - R & R in Gangtok now uploaded

23 June 2006 - The Goeche-La Trek has now been completely uploaded

22 June 2006 - A day in the snow uploaded

21 June 2006 - Shortest day of the year; a good time to look at the highest part of the Goeche La Trek. I've noticed that the formatting is sometimes a bit strange in Firefox - unfortunately this can't be changed as the site is optimised for Internet Explorer and the two treat some html code a bit differently.

20 June 2006 - The fifth day of the trek has been uploaded. I have split the trek description into two parts in order to avoid excessive delays in downloading.

18 June 2006 - Fourth day uploaded

15 June 2006 - I have uploadeded the third day of the Goeche-La trek plus the 3D map and track profile

13 June 2006 - Second day of the Goeche-La Trek uploaded

11 June 2006 - First day of the Goeche-La Trek uploaded

10 June 2006 - At last we are off to start the second trek

6 June 2006 - Nearly forgot - I have also uploaded a 3D map and track profile, accessible from the trek pages. I have enlarged one my favourite images of the trek in the photogallery.

5 June 2006 - Finally the last stage of the Singalila Trek has been uploaded - one trek down, two to go!

3 June 2006 - Fifth day of the Singalila trek uploaded - this time there is a view!

1 June 2006 - Back again, the fourth day has now been uploaded - enjoy the views!

21 May 2006 - Up to the third day of our Singalila Trek; unfortunately, I have a work deadline so there will be a slight hiatus until June

18 May 2006 - At last the first trek is starting to appear

16 May 2006 - Darjeeling section uploaded

14 May 2006 - Wow! what an adventure! We are back home again. There was no chance of uploading while on the trip, so I am starting today. I will try to upload a new entry every couple of days, until it is complete.

31 March 2006 - Flew out Oz to India to commence our Himalayan adventure


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