TO TREK AND BACK

( TRUE TREK GUIDE BOOK)

By

Eric EH Buddhadharma

© 2011

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INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS TREKKING

WHO CAN TREK

WHY SHOULD YOU TREK

TREKKING IN  NEPAL AND INDIA

SAFE  PLANNING YOUR TREK

MONEY FOR SAFETY ON TREK

THINGS  YOU SHOULD  CARRY ALONG

FOODS SAFE  TO CARRY ON TREK

DRINKING WATER SAFETY

YOUR CLOTHING AND SHOES

CAUTION  DURING THE TREK

ETHICS  DURING TREKKING

BEING ALERT  AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDES

DEALING WITH AMS.

DO’S AND DON’TS WHILE  TREKKING

DURING PHOTOGRAPHY OR OTHERWISE MAINTAIN PRECAUTION

HELP AND INFO.  ON TREKKING.

NOTE

INTRODUCTION

People with a determined mind and physical fitness, should trek at high altitude sometime in their life. Trekking is one grade difficult to walking in the hilly terrains and one grade easier than negotiating the mountain passes.  Whatever it may be, trekking seem to be a simple adventure sport, but many a times it turns out to be hazardous and life threatening.  From the time, you finish your breakfast and leave the hamlet to start the trek, until the time you return back to the same spot or to any other rest house; you are always at a risk of injury, threat to your life, or at least in a situation of SOS.

I have trekked at high altitudes in India and Nepal with my children,     aged 4½, and 8 ½  year olds.  They did not take a piggyback to the base camps but trekked at 9000, 13000 and 19000 ft altitudes themselves along with us and other trekkers en-routes.  Taking such small children at high altitudes were extremely risky and against the views of most trekkers and even our family elders.

We do love our children and we are concerned about their safety.  It is only a good planning and a careful strategy each time you start your trek which keeps you safe and accident free.  In order to ensure almost 100% safety, my wife and I read several books on trekking, before starting out on our first trek in the Nepal Himalayas; unfortunately many vital information were lacking on safety in all these books.  I, being cautious of taking children along, decided to jot down points that were necessary for a good and safe trek.  This was necessary for us to come back home safe and sound after enjoying  over a fortnight of  bone breaking arduous journeys in the mountain trails of Indian as well as Nepal Himalayas, with a baby and a child, both of whom walked steadily, keeping pace with adult trekkers in the trail.

When you leave home until you are back with the experience of trekking, you are prone to many hazards, in the journey as well as in the trails. To ensure that you are safe and well equipped with all the necessities, the same way your grandma or your mom would like you to be in, you need to read this book and carry it along when you start your journey the next time you plan a trek.  This small guidebook has endless valuable information which many people and books on trekking, unfortunately, do not provide you with. This is why it is called “Trekking guide”, meaning the advice and suggestions here are genuine and sincere to guide you at all times during your treks. The advice in this book is non-commercial and non-biased, not seeking to advertise any specific product or service.

This little book on safe trekking is handy and your friend in need.  During your trek, you may go through it every evening, while you relax in one of those hamlets in the trails, tucked in your sleeping bag, against the quiet flowing streams and the crackling sound of the candles.

Have a pleasant and safe trek now and always, God bless you!

Eric EH Buddhadharma

Author/Editor

November 2011

WHAT IS TREKKING

Trekking is an adventure sport or a strenuous holiday for active people. Generally, one can trek in hills and in mountain passes.  Walking from village to village or from one mountain to another until you reach the last hamlet could be called trekking.  Mountaineering starts from where trekking ends.  So trekking as an adventure sport or as a strenuous leisure holiday is safe and enjoyable.  Trekking generally starts from lower altitude of say 2000 to 2500 ft above sea level and reaches up to 20,000 feet above sea level.  Different trekking routes have different trekking conditions.  This is why trekking is divided into easy, moderate and difficult.  No two treks are similar in terms of environmental conditions.  Some, you may trek easily while others may need higher physical endurance and experience in covering the entire distance, sometimes which may take over a fortnight.  Some treks require you to acclimatise yourself at different altitude levels so that you may not suffer from altitude sickness.

Trekking help you boost your confidence level and make you feel better physically and mentally.  You even learn to value all that you have back home. When you trek in high passes and mountains you will experience lack of several amenities that you have back home; electricity, fridge, TV, cell phone, car, kitchen, office and home gadgets, variety of foods and fruits.  In the mountain passes even packaged water is expensive, as it has to be fetched from low land after paying an exorbitant sum of money to the porters.  You may have to live on a very few variety of foods and drinks, all these teaches you to value all what you possess back home.  When you go back home you respect all what you have and you also take back the rich experience and the pictures of those lovely moments in the mountains.

You will be surprised to see very smart people living in those high mountain passes.  Some of these people make lots of money, spending their time making brisk business during the trekking seasons and then moving out and living in the city during the lean period.

Trekking is a great mental de-stressing past time or adventure.  It has great benefits for those trekking the correct way and with the correct guidance.  Trekking is regarded as a safe adventure, provided of course undertaken with the correct guidance. 

You walk through the forests and the passes, spending time observing and feeling the natural beauty surrounding you.  You see and experience all that you never experienced before in your life and if you do not trek again, you may never experience such beauty and feeling ever again in your life.  Trekking experiences could make you a different person altogether and may even strengthen you spiritually for better.  The more you trek, greater your experience in crisis management, illness management, meeting with different types of people and living conditions.  Trekking experience in Nepal, Lukla-Mt.Everest Base camp would be different to, say Annapurna BC, in terms of fellow trekkers, difficulty standards, and environmental conditions. 

 If ever you want to make trekking your passion, remember to start from a very short and easy trek, learning first-hand the difficulties and the demands that it puts upon you.  You can then graduate to the moderate level of trekking until you are able to undertake the difficult ones.  As in weight lifting, one cannot lift all the weights immediately the first day, even if one can carry lots of provisions and grocery from the market to one’s home, because carrying this baggage is different from carrying and maneuvering dead weights which could damage your muscles and ligaments, if the movements are incorrect and not controlled.  In the same way, difficult trekking, even if one can walk for hours, cannot be undertaken, unless one has considerable experience, otherwise one is risking one’s life in the process. END OF SAMPLING THIS BOOK.

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