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This is probably the single most extreme non-exploratory
trek you can do in Nepal. You need a high
level of fitness, a considerable ease in the outdoors, and basic
mountaineering skills. There's a lot of untamed forest and difficult
trails lower down, and as you go further up, you truly are all alone
in the mountains and there are some extremely demanding parts of
what goes for the trail. You truly must be able to hold your own
here - a landscape this stark and isolated requires as much mental
preparation as physical. The pay-off is an extraordinary sense of
calm, as well as proximity to and view of the entire Dhaulagiri
Himal and the sixth highest mountain in the world, Dhaulagiri I
(8,167 m). And, of course a sense of true extreme adventure. The
hardest part is crossing over into the Kali Gandaki Valley, which
is separated from the north and west of the Dhaulagiri massif by
over a dozen peaks higher than 7,000 m. Once you've managed that,
though, you'll be rewarded with the exceptionally pretty and hospitable
Thakali villages of Marpha and Tukuche, and hot springs furthre
down. You see trans-Himalayan culture at its most 'normal' - it
will feel you've got to a very cosmopoltitan town, after what you've
accomplished.
Day 01 : Kathmandu to by bus Baglung.
Day 02 : Baglung to Babichour (920 m).
Day 03 : Babichour to Dorbang (1,200 m).
Day 04 : Gorban to Dhara (1,930 m).
Day 05 : Dhara to Boghara (2,080 m).
Day 06 :Boghara to Dobang (2,880 m).
Day 07 : Dobang to Italian Camp
Day 08 : next camp at 4,300 m. Stay here to acclimatise.
Day 09 : Italian Camp to Dhaulagiri Base Camp at (4,900 m).
Day 10 : French Pass (5,400 m) named Hidden Valley (5,020 m).
Day 11 : Thapa Pass (5,240 m) to Thapa base camp
Day 12 : Thapa base camp to Marpha (2,680 m).
Day 13 : Marpha to Jomosom (2,713 m),
Day 14 : Jomosom to flight Pokhara (920 m),
Day 15 : Pokhara to by bus Kathmandu.
| Cost per person in US $ Dollars |
| group |
1person |
2-4 person |
5-8 person |
9-15 person |
| Camping |
1240 |
885 |
800 |
715 |
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