Annapurna Meltdown
It was never really clear to me how I ended up stumbling around alone and in the dark in the Himalayas, but since you’re reading this, you already know that those mountains they do call.
And when your adventure buddies are the same crazy mom and daughter team that you shared a yurt with for the awesome Mongolia Sunrise 2 Sunset race a couple of years before, the call is loud!
Add that the race in question was also hosting the final of the 2019 Salomon Golden Series, that we’d be hobnobbing with the royalty of global trail running, and the call was irresistible. In any event, one doesn’t really need too much of an excuse to visit Nepal – it’s easy to get to, very affordable (even for Saffas), offers an explosion of cultural colour, and is a veritable extreme activity and adventure playground.
Cut to the stunning lakeside town of Pokhara, gateway to the Annapurna Circuit. The clean air and relative quiet were a change from vibrant noisy dirty Kathmandu. It was a real treat to join the aforesaid mother and daughter Tanya and Clare Worner, also from Johannesburg, for an easy leg-loosener run along the beautiful lake shore.
As a trail event organiser myself, I am always interested to see how other events are put together, especially the high
