My first visit to Kangchenjunga

April 4, 2018 Expedition dispatches 8000m peaks, doug scott, douglas freshfield, erwin schneider, frank smythe, himalayas, jamie mcguinness, joe brown, joe tasker, joseph hooker, kangchenjunga, nepal, pete boardman, trekking 5 Comments

My first visit to Kangchenjunga

By the time you read this I will be somewhere in the Kangchenjunga region of Nepal, in the far east of the country near its eastern border with India. It’s a region dominated by one huge mountain, 8,586m Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world.

Drukpa Kunley’s Rhubarb: an extraordinary Himalayan vegetable

July 26, 2011 Humour bhutan, blue sheep, drukpa kunley, flora, frank spencer chapman, himalayas, jangothang ri, jhomolhari, joseph hooker, paro, pasang dawa lama, rheum nobile, sikkim, tibet, trekking, weather, wildlife 3 Comments

Drukpa Kunley’s Rhubarb: an extraordinary Himalayan vegetable

I’m going to conclude my trio of posts about Bhutan by relating an incident that happened at a place called Jangothang on the Jhomolhari trek. In previous posts I’ve been moaning about the weather in Bhutan, and how the beautiful