Thursday, Kathmandu
My friend Aakash phones and asks “what are you doing this weekend?” I tell him I’m planning to get a bus towards the Langtang area, just north of Kathmandu, and go trekking.
“We’re going to Tatopani,” he says. …
The most important thing in life is energy, not the kind of energy we need to run a car, but our own personal energy: the energy we need to get through the day. We take this energy for granted, at …
I’m in a big room at the plush Himalaya Hotel in Kathmandu. A book about Nepal’s earthquake is being launched, I’m surrounded by well dressed people and I feel out of place.
At the back of the room is a …
Last time I saw Sega he was in Bucharest, on a stage, next to a beautiful celebrity TV star, in a large garden where mature trees protected us from the sun. He was launching a novel in Romanian called Namaste …
The scariest moment in the film Jurassic Park was when the T-Rex is standing above the cars, containing two adults and two kids.
Just before the dinosaur attacks, the mathematician character (played by Jeff Goldblum) tells the kids that they …
I met Aakash Pant at the Himalayan Outdoor Festival at a village called Kakani, a couple of hours drive from Kathmandu. That was my introduction to Nepal — a weekend of jogging, climbing, mountain biking and camping. It was exhausting.…