Annapurna Basecamp Trek: via Ghorepani and Poon Hill

By Bo Belvedere Christensen

This book on the very popular Annapurna Basecamp trek via the famous viewpoint Poon Hill is an image based narrative by mountain climber and guide Bo Belvedere Christensen.
It's based on several treks done in both spring and autumn and documents the experiences that met him and his groups during this beautiful trek through one of the most amazing mountain regions of The World.

The descriptions are based on the authors extensive experience with the area since visiting here the first time in 1991 on route to climb Dhaulagiri, and since doing several treks and expeditions in the Annapurna region.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Apr 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9788743082446

Bo Belvedere Christensen

The author is a mountaineer, climber guide, and photographer who has spent more than 45 years climbing in the Himalayas, Africa, The Alps, The Andes and many other places. He has summited 3 peaks above 8000 meter, 3 above 7000 meter and more than 20 above 6000 meter. He guides both mountaineering expeditions and trekking trips. Beeing a keen and capable photographer he always documents his trips in both images and video and have so far published 20 books on climbing, trekking and mountaineering and had all his larger movie projects shown on national television.

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Nayapul

It is a long trip driving from Kathmandu, but you can actually go by a fast car from the capital of Nepal early in the morning and arrive at Nayapul before noon to start your trek.

If you want a more relaxed and cultural start to your trip spend, a day driving by a local bus from Kathmandu to Pokhara. Next day it’s only a short trip to the start of the trek.

Nayapul is not a place to linger for long. As many small towns along the road it’s not a very pleasant site due to amounts of rubbish strewn all over the place.

But that is soon over as you wander into the wonderful landscape towards Ulleri and Tikhedunga.

At the beginning it’s very much a farmed landscape, but the surroundings change as you get further.

Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S1

Lens: Built in at 12.6mm

Settings: 1/160 sek, aperture 3.9, ISO 100

Local porters

As you walk the trekking route you’ll soon find that you are not alone. Of course there are other trekkers but the locals use these routes and have done so for hundreds of years.

What we call trekking routes are actually paths that have been used by local merchandisers. Supplies that are not available deeper inside the mountain areas have through centuries been carried on the bag of porters or by the help of mules.

Carrying stuff has been a lifetime occupancy for a lot of people to go back and forth between the lowland and the