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My First Himalayan Summit – Climbing a 6000m peak for under US$ 200!

My journal entry for Monday 19 August 1985 does not offer much hope : “Today has been a disastrous day”, I wrote back then, “our two porters have abandoned us in the middle of an island in the Karcha Nala. We are stuck here for the night. The streams are flowing swift and deep on either side of us, our tents are flapping as if they’ll take off at any time. I’m trying to boil a little water in my…

Hike to Kinney Lake from Aloke Surin on Vimeo.

Cooper's Caper from Aloke Surin on Vimeo.

Slesse Snowshoe Walk

Life and Death and Decay

To dwell on death and decay need not be a morbid fascination for us mortals. It should be part of our daily routine of contemplation, conscious or otherwise. As Shakespeare famously said – “From hour to hour we ripe and ripe; and then from hour to hour we rot and rot….. and thereby hangs a tale.”

After a month of blissful existence high on a glacier where with every breath and every step I had…

Baby on Deck from Aloke Surin on Vimeo.

Gidara Bugyal : A Backpacking Trek in Uttarakhand, India.

The autumn of 2018 found me and my long time friend John trekking to Kala Pathar near Everest Base Camp and on to Gokyo Lake. This destination had been on my bucket list since the early 1970s. While the mountains of Nepal never fail to amaze me, the experience of hundreds of trekkers stomping up and down the trails and jostling for space on the swaying suspension bridges over the Dudh Kosi, the…

Baby Walks the Plank from Aloke Surin on Vimeo.

Cherry Blossom Canada from Aloke Surin on Vimeo.

Cherry Blossom Canada from Aloke Surin on Vimeo.

Himalayan Odyssey – Chapter 3: Nepal 1979

Dhaulagiri South Face

The distant hum of aircraft engines was unmistakable. Asit, Hasmukh, Dilip, Naresh, Bajraman and I ran to the gravel landing strip and chased away the dzos grazing on the sparse grass as the Twin Otter dropped out of the clouds and touched down at the far end of the field in a cloud of dust. The sole employee of Nepal Airlines in Jomosom came out of the makeshift control…

First Peak from Aloke Surin on Vimeo.